Maybe that’s all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn’t. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you wer...
I have started taking the pills and I pray that everyone is right, that I have been sabotaged by my own brain chemicals. And that the little blue pill is going to put things right again.
In the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.
You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.
There are so few silent spaces in this modern world; I have learned to relish the gift of insomnia.
The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.
Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there...
He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it,...
You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers.
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
What we think of as our gut instincts are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.
What is the difference between justice and revenge? he asked. ...Revenge seeks chaos, he said. Justice seeks balance. That's the difference.
What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you’re saying it’s all right now, or that you've forgotten the wrong. It just means tha...
We don’t choose where we come from, Marshall. And we often have little to say about what happens to us. But the adult understands that he and he alone is responsible for his life. You have choices now...
We can’t hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.
Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.
They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are
There is no external refuge. Meaning, you cannot look into the outer world to feel safe, to feel at peace. You cannot look without for understanding, or for justice. You must look within. I