Because when you get right down to it, the only person you should trust is the one you'd lay down your life for.
Because the more you changed, the less of you there was.
Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.
At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.
Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you...
As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there’s no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and th...
As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?
As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have...
Anna anna bo banna, banana fanna fo fanna, me my mo manna...Anna.Chuck! Do Chuck!
And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded
An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.
After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.
Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, this too shall pass - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, comp...
Active racism is telling a nurse supervisor that an African American nurse can’t touch your baby. It’s snickering at a black joke. But passive racism? It’s noticing there’s only one person of color in...
A wish is just words. Belief is the catalyst. It's what sets that wish into motion.
A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.
A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
When you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because w...