If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The l...
If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around,...
If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
If you are a mother, you must have someone to take care of.If that someone is taken from you, whether it is a newborn or an individual old enough to have offspring of its own, can you still call yours...
If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.
If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up
If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?
If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it really fall? If a character sits in a book and no one reads it, is he truly alive? As
I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.
I've thought about all the things I could have done differently, and if it would have led to another outcome. But thinking doesn't change anything, does it?
I've thought a lot about it: how you can ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom. I've thought about all the things I could have done diff...
I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.
I've always been a loner, and I've never really felt like I belong here. I'm like one of those women who read Jane Austen obsessively and still hope that Mr. Darcy might show up at the door. Or the Ci...
I'm sorry, I sobbed. I'm helpless.That's where you're wrong, she told me. You're mot helpless. You need help. There's a big difference.
I'm sick and tired of people in my life abandoning me, and she will be just one more. So I do what is easiest, when I feel like I'm in danger of being left behind. I make sure I'm the one to walk away...
I wont let you fall, he said, and because he never did, the world from that vantage point stops being so crazy.
I wonder if you've got a minute.I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
I went to law school for the same reason everyone else goes to law school: I had no idea what to do with my life and my parents were paying.
I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.