When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
What makes a treasure a treasure is how rare a find it is, when you need it themost.
Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.
I mean, who the hell has a turret on their house, besides Rapunzel?
But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?
Newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all...
When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.
What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we...
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more import...
She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.
She had tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.
She falters, then gather up the weeds of her thoughts and offers me the saddest, truest bouquet.
Life is not a plot; it's in the details.
It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.
Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get...
Dylan Jerome, the lawyer admits, wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.