Would you rather spend the rest of your life thinking about us, and remembering it as something totally perfect, or would it be better to let it get all screwed up and have that as your memory?
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't r...
With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until...
Where did you go?To the end of the driveway, my mother says. I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out.I wince. Do you ha...
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyon...
When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell your...
When some-one dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, there are plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where a...
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough...
WE ALL DO IT, YOU know. Distract ourselves from noticing how time’s passing. We throw ourselves into our jobs. We focus on keeping the blight off our tomato plants. We fill up our gas tanks and top of...
Vonita, God rest her soul, used to say that if men were the ones to get pregnant, abortion would probably be a sacrament. The Super Bowl halftime show would celebrate it. Men who had terminated pregna...
They were different places in that same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.
There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.
There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do
There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie, Connor said. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.
There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.
There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, li...
There are two types of spirits. One makes the transition to the spirit realm and goes on to whatever comes next. They can still come back to connect with people who are alive, but it’s like dropping b...
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.
There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back.You can deceive him on purpose.You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.You can break a promise.The...
The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to everyone else who's ever read it. The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a h...