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.
Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said.She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and he...
People had figured out all sorts of ways to makethings seem different than they truly were.
Our eyes meet in the mirror but neither of us speaks; we are afraid that whatever words we pick won't be able to bear the weight of what's happened.
Only the liar knows he's lying
Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.'I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain a...
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 always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD
Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets carried to an arena for our viewing pleasure. By definition, then, the...
Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.
May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define sin have changed, because of the times.
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.
Louie’s final thought before he passed out was that this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.
Look at that, Michael said. My daughter's an hour old and she's already sleeping with some guy.
Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.