Unlike the rest of the free world, I didn’t get here by accident.
Think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live...
The shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
The relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.
Parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.
Maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now....
Males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
It it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you t...
If i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything with...
I know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.
I don't need you. i never needed you.well, i fucking needed you!
Con su visión recuperada, bajaba los ojos para no tener que ver.
And another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief...
[...] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation...
You’re a fixer, Grant mused. You’re also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it’s the pains in the ass that change the world.
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
You saved me, I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. I had to, he said. So you could save me back.
You might tell yourself that candor is the foundation of a relationship, but even that would be untrue. You are far more likely to lie to yourself, or your loved one, if you think it will keep the pai...
You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.