Tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.
So familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.
She didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surplus jacket and combat bots, she did this without apology. It was a great irony that the very fact of...
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...
Do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
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 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...
You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. You watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at th...
You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell your...
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.
You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.
Yes, she is. He looks at me, his face carved in pain. She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsen...
Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. Like falling in love or finding god, if it ha...ppens to you, you kno...
Why didn't you tell me? Delia says, stung.Why don't any of us tell you anything? I respond. We love you.
Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it’s your fault - that if you’d tried better, worked harder, it wouldn’t have happened...
Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. it says,
When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external...