You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way ar...
You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.
You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different.
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 keep dividing and dividing and you’ll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no
You can have the best intentions, but the moment there’s a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.
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 can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
You ask your readers if they can account for every minute of their lives, every thought in their heads, and be proud of it. You ask them if they've never jaywalked.... never gone thirty-one miles per...
You are not an impostor, Sam Hallowell told me. You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You...
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed-...
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...
Why hadn’t he realized this before? Everyone knew that if you divided realityby expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you inverted the equation-expectationdivided by reality-you didn’t g...
Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence?
Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or...
When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.
When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.