No matter what you do for someone-no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm or give him food so he’s not hungry-make one wrong move at the wrong moment...
My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame i...
Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.
Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
Loves a tidal wave...because it sucks you under and you drown.
Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fellapart at the details. It couldn’t save a single child-not the ones who’d gone to Sterling High that day,...
Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.
Let me tell you what you feel like when you know you are ready to die.You sleep a lot, and when you wake up the very first thought in your head is that you wish you could go back to bed.You go entire...
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -Benjamin FranklinNot everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced....
Just so you know, when they say once upon a time....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pag...
Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.
I’ve always thought elephants walk as if they have music being piped into their heads that no one else can hear. And from the roll of their hips and their swagger, I’m going to guess that the artist i...
It's the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you
It's no small feat, finishing a journey, I tell her. But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.