What did he do to you? Kyrie asks. Flirt with another girl? Call you fat? Marina suggests. Talk about his ex? Ondine says, and the others groan. We’ve been there, sister, Marina says.
What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?
Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…...
Well, I had the other problem, I told him. I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in.What happened then?What else, I said. It broke.
Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of aband...
We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.
We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.
WE ALL DO IT, YOU know. Distract ourselves from noticing how time’s passing. We throw ourselves into our jobs. We focus on keeping the blight off our tomato plants. We fill up our gas tanks and top of...
Vonita, God rest her soul, used to say that if men were the ones to get pregnant, abortion would probably be a sacrament. The Super Bowl halftime show would celebrate it. Men who had terminated pregna...
To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.
To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.
There's an elderly woman fussing with the top of the cream pitcher, trying to get it open. Her purse sits on the counter, but as I approach, she picks up the handbag and anchors it to her side, crossi...
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do
There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almos...
There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?
There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.