When people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
What's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.
One half leaning in, one half pulling away.
He glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
What makes a family a family isn’t doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.
What made you happy once might not make you happy now.
We have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.
The people you love can surprise you every day... maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.
The part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers
Tal vez las cosas malas suceden porque es la única forma de que sigamos recordando cómo deberían ser las buenas.
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...
If you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.
Do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
A guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a...
[Josie said] I just ... I don't like the way you treat kids who aren't like us, all right? Just because you don't want to hang out with losers doesn't mean you have to torture them, does it? Yeah, it...
You’d be surprised how hard it is to get people to believe the truth. I guess that’s because most of the time we don’t want to admit it to ourselves.
You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhol...
You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps ofyour child you still could in what he had bec...
You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.