This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.
Things break all the time.Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't w...
There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.
There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from...
There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.
There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.
There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron.
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That...
There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, bu...
The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.
The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than... but I have spent 20 years seeing how beautiful women are. Not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withs...
The vast majority of protesters were men, and it made perfect sense to Louie—the male of the species felt threatened by the biology of women. Even in the Bible, normal female biological functions were...
The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can...