She had come to the clinic because she didn't want to be a little girl anymore. But it wasn't having sex that made you a woman. It was having to make decisions, sometimes terrible ones. Children were...
My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen.My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.
Newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me i...
His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of people in this world, she had told him, and the spirits will see that most of them, you never have to...
When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.''But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.''That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?''Be...
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.