You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.
I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't.
There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.
You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, g...
People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.
I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their...
All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and...
Being together, like being able to see certain stars only with your peripheral vision, isn't something you can create. It's just something that happens to you.
T)he only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart
We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.
It’s not the natural disasters you have to fear. It’s the ones that are inside of you, waiting to happen.
No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.
The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.
The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.
And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth.
I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.
But it didn't matter. Because all it proved was that my mother was sitting out there coatless somewhere, waiting to come home to me. Even as he stared at it, the remark Your mother's dead sitting unsp...
Don’t worry the trolls don’t come to you. It’s your own darkness that leads you to the trolls.
When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of . It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.
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