I asked her sister for a cell number, at least, but something tells me that 401-GO2-HELL is out of service.
I am angry at myself, at the world, but because it is easier, I lash out at him.
Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind.
He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.
Heroes don't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they don't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving....
Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're...
Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.
He was a detective, but he didn’t detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken,every time.
He swaggered over to my mother, and kissed her so long and slow that my own cheeks started to burn, because I was sure the neighbors would see. When he lifted his head, my mother's eyes were a color I...
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something thatdoesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.
He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers.
Given my mother's experience with romance, I shouldn't even care - but there's a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you...
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.
Do you know what it's like to give your whole self to a person, and your whole heart to boot, until you've got nothing left to give- and then realize that it still isn't whay they need?
Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?
Coal, with time and heat and pressure, will always become a diamond. But if you were freezing to death, which would you consider the gem?
Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.
Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.
Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.
Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.