Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
So much time is spent with people superficially. You remember all the fun you had but nothing specific.
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?
Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.
Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but s...
She didn't like herself like this, either. But she couldn't go back to being the girl she'd been before she met him; that girl was gone. So where did that leave her?
She belonged to me. She was all the things I wasn't. And I was all the things she wasn't. Her hand, it fit mine.
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.
Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there'...
Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you...
No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.
Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.
My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mot...
Love's a tidal wave, she says.Because it sweeps you off your feet? I ask. No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.But sometimes, I point out, it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.
Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.
Just because you choose to leave a place did not mean that you could escape taking it with you. A man and a woman who lived together long enough might swap traits, until they found parts of themselves...
I’m the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself.
I’m surprised you can believe in God, after meeting so many evil people.How could I not, Leo asks, after meeting so many survivors