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.
In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.
Jones still labored under the delusion that he could bend Ricky to his way of thinking, that with anger, hard words, and harsh punishment he could force their son to do and be what he wanted—in spite...
I’ve had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it’s kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.
IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can’t imagine the places you’ll end up. But most people don’t do that. Most people get this death grip on wha...
Honestly, it’s the most you can ask of men sometimes. They’re so wound up, so buried beneath layers of boys don’t cry, and pussy, and man up, that they don’t even know how to feel about anything. I sh...
He’s dead, Annie. But as long as you haven’t dealt with the memories of the things he has done to you, he’ll live on. We’ll always have to face these times when you think he’s returned for you. You’ll...
Her mother always said that when you were sad or worried or angry, that you had to do something. Anything. Go for a walk. Make cookies. Draw a picture. Clean your room. Never just lie there and feel s...
Fear holds on. Love lets go. Yes,
Counseling. She said that grief is not linear. It’s not a slow progression forward toward healing, it’s a zigzag, a terrible back-and-forth from devastated to okay until finally there are more okay pa...
You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that? The
When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.
Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.
They were eager to get rid of me at Mount Sinai Hospital. I had only a catastrophic health insurance policy (private insurance is expensive and I never get sick) and there was some debate over whether...
They don’t find peace. It’s pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of c...
There were 9,780 living souls populating The Hollows. There were good people and bad ones, people with secrets and dark appetites, happy people, and people buckling under the weight of grief and sorro...
She did love him, in that way that teenage girls love, like a lemming. Which is not love, of course.
People who kill themselves generally suffer from severe clinical depression, I said. Their reasons for choosing suicide are not always rational. It’s often a chemical imbalance that leads them to the...
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. —John Milton, Paradise Lost
Love, a promise delivered already broken.