It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us h...
It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.
It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll h...
It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch,...
It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person. That’s what the Final Soluti...
It is amazing how you can look in a mirror your whole life and think you are seeing yourself clearly. And then one day, you peel off a filmy gray layer of hypocrisy, and you realize you’ve never truly...
It had to be up at the top of the page, didn’t it…. Oliver rolls his eyes and wearily looks at the sheer cliff of rock before him. You do it for Seraphima, I point out.
It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him...
It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.
It does'nt matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.
In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.
In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.
In other words, what looks like cruel and heartless from one angle might, from another, actually be the only way to protect your family. -Lucas
In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn't all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they're incapable of saying exactly what it is that's causing pain.
In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.
If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?Make them stay.And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?Ellie shrugged. I don't know.Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave firs...
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
If you think about someone you’ve loved and lost, you are already with them.
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?