You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a c...
You don't borrow trouble.
You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.
You can’t create life in a place that’s dying by degrees.
You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours. Today, when I get to Hartwick
You can't pay a landlord in dogma.
You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you’re crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to potentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell your...
You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves...
When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.
When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
When I tell people this story, they assume the miracle I am referring to during that long-ago blizzard was the birth of a baby. True, that was astonishing. But that day I witnessed a greater wonder. A...
Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.
What would you like to be? Nina asks.Nathaniel tosses his magical tablecloth. A superhero, he says. A new one.Caleb is sure they could muster up Superman on short notice. What's wrong with the old one...
What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes?
What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away?
Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall for man she can never have.
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.