Tell me about your family, I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family...
Take my condition. The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now—not being able to walk, not being able to wipe my ass, waking up some mornings wanting to cry—there is nothing innately embarras...
Sully: I never said good-byeGiselle: Such a needless word when you love somebody
Sticking with your family is what it a family.
Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
She wanted to melt into the ground at that moment, just hot wax into a puddle and disappear through a sewer grate. His eyes. That look. No interest. Total humiliation
She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-...
Sacrifice, the Captain said. You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supp...
Religion? Government? Are we not loyalto such things, sometimes to the death?Eddie shrugged.Better, she said, to be loyal to one another.
Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared...
People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman.
People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] foun...
People don’t die because of loyalty.They don’t? She smiled. Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?Eddie shrugged.Better, she said, to be loyal to one another.
People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing t...