I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it. Like scanning the newspaper headline at a red light, and therefore missing the rogue van tha...
I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, tha...
I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the...
I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.
I pointed to the wound. It's missing, I said.My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. Yes, she said. But see how much of me is left?
I love you, he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter...
I love you...But I made you cry.
I look at you and I see this amazing, beautiful thing. All these books and songs are written about people looking for the love of their life and never fining it, and we've got it and it isn't worth a...
I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you t...
I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.
I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. I'd thought. Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fi...
I don’t want their help, he explodes. I don’t want to be someone who needs their help. I want to be just like everyone else, you know, not a special case.
I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh...
I can't answer a single one of these, which is how I know that whether I'm ready or not, I'm growing up.
I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet.