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...
They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are
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...
This was what happened. Abused boys became dangerous men. Those around them with a self-preservation instinct—even the people who loved them—started to move away.
Totally different outcomes; we’ve made totally different choices in our lives. Like I said, how you were raised is part of the big picture. It’s one important factor in a million. But in the end, it’s...
Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.
Wasn’t there some belief about how if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump right out? But if you put it in cold water and turn up the heat gradually, it will allow itself to slowly cook to...
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.
We can’t hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.
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 patches and fewer devastated...
We had a great friendship, good sex, a shared passion for the dinosaur room at the Museum of Natural History and Haagen-Daz French Vanilla ice cream. But love is more than the sum of its parts, isn't...
We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account. They’re not people, not really. They’re parents; how dare they li...
We have more patience for girls who act like boys than boys who act like girls. A tomboy is considered cute. One day she’ll shuck her muddy jeans and put on a dress, and everyone will gasp at her beau...
We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridle...
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...
What had amazed him, what amazed him still, even after all these years, was how quickly he’d stepped out of himself. He’d slipped off every convention and moral that had defined him, a great cowl that...
What is the difference between justice and revenge? he asked. ...Revenge seeks chaos, he said. Justice seeks balance. That's the difference.
What we think of as our gut instincts are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.
When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.
When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it’s like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the hor...
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