See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of livingis a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all,...
Please come to the dance, because you're my music.
Peter took a shuddering breath. He wondered what his fish had thought, expecting the cool blue of the sea, only to wind up swimming in shit.
Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.
People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the fr...
Only the liar knows he's lying
Nurse: You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet.Joe: I'm actually a lawyer.Nurse: My condolences.
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.
No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.
No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.
My father died last year, Thomas said. I still look for him in crowds. I’m sorry. He shrugged. I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a...
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.
Marina sighs. Love is like 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...
Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.
Look at that, Michael said. My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy.
Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.
Keeping a secret isn't always lying. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the person you love.