BEING A MOTHER GIVES YOU a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child with many different faces all at once. It is the reason you can watch him shatter a ceramic lamp, and s...
As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.
As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He’d wanted so badly to live there that one day he’d smashed the glass ball -...
And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.
And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.
And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd...
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail.
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet
After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.
Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn’t quite so accessible to all.
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.
A trial was a stupid word, consideringthat an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.
A rain of pebbles from overhead makes me glance up in time to see Ruthann step onto the lip of the cliff, another fifteen feet above me. Her body is wrapped tight in a pure white robe. Ruthann! I shou...
A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.
A filament of sensation sizzled between them, like a thin string of kerosene that, for the love of a match, could turn into a wall of fire.
As it turned out, growing up was just as she'd feared. One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head... or may be just your old ones, minus t...
A witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.