Oliver, she says. You can do this. I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someon...
Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them.Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. Maybe you've got that backward, he said. Ma...
Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.
No matter who else is mourning, you’re in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you’re aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happ...
No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someon...
No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.
No matter how many times you let someone go, it never got any easier.
My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame i...
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 the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
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 bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.
Love makes life a little brighter
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.
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.