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.
Males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
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.
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.
You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.''I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.
You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if...
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that....
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
You don’t look at another person’s plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.
You could have been Bethany Matthews, Delia Hopkins, Cleopatra - it wouldn't matter. And if you'd grown up with a thousand lemon trees in the middle of the desert, with a cactus instead of a Christmas...
You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.
You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.
You can love a pet more than you love some people. [...] It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.
You can invent any fiction and call it a life.Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you t...
You can feel people staring: it's like heat that rise from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don’t have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it’s about you. I...