Bleeding heart, he’d called her.Well. He should know.He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
A villain let your creativity out of its cage.
A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...
The arms of his swim team sweatshirt still wrapped around the pillow on the bed - Em had said it smelled of him.
There was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had...
The reason we lose people we care about is so we’re more grateful for the ones we still have.
She told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can s...
Pro-choice’ is a misnomer. There is not really an issue of choice at all. It is against the law to cut short someone’s life, period. To say that a fetus is not a life is to split hairs, since all majo...
Memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there’s a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one....
Like yours. That’s because home isn’t where you are. It’s who you’re with.
In order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.
Don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.
Could not be blamed just because no one ever mentioned that once you closed the storybook, Cinderella still had to do laundry and clean the toilet and take care of the crown prince.
Back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initi...
You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?We weren't givin' it away, Concise snaps. If someone was fool enough to mess himself up, that was his problem.I sha...
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to r...
You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in...
You say you don’t see color…but that’s all you see. You’re so hyperaware of it, and of trying to look like you aren’t prejudiced, you can’t even understand that when you say race doesn’t matter all I...