It's the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you
It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.
It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.
It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constell...
It turns out that the more you repeat the same action, no matter how reprehensible, the more you can make an excuse for it in your own mind.
It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll...
It is probably the hardest thing to understand: how even horror can become commonplace. . . You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.
It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really ar...
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for...
In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.
If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.
If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.
If it's us, she whispered, how come you get to decide?When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot.They ha...
If all I could ever have is you, I'd be a billionaire.
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. She swallowed and looked at the black ground. The thing is, the...
I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I...
I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.