And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.
And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it
And I thought—not for the first time—that forgiving and forgetting aren’t mutually exclusive.
And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.
After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.
After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
A saguaro can fall for a snowman but where would they set up house?
A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live a...
A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.
A jewel’s just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure.
A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.
A bus cuts the world in half...
Because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you...
I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silent...
When you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, whe...