It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
Is it really worth dying for the person you love?
In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.
Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawl...
If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.
If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The l...
I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom. I've thought about all the things I could have done diff...
I'm sorry, I sobbed. I'm helpless.That's where you're wrong, she told me. You're mot helpless. You need help. There's a big difference.
I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right t...
I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.
I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family.In c...
I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. I'd thought. Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fi...
I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I’m gonna make sure it isn’t any shorter than it has to be.
I don’t want their help, he explodes. I don’t want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.
I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is...
I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the...
I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds,...
I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet.