That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pul...
Now I think miracles are things that happen in stained glass, and on dusty Jerusalem roads thousands of years ago. Not here, not to us. Not when we need them.
My whole life has been one big broken promise.
Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything...
Is this okay with you, Jenna? For him to stay here?Yeah, I said. It's good. You have no idea what it takes for him to ask for help.I spent all evening in Alan's office, reading at his desk and keeping...
I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can rem...
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. I don't mean the usual faint impression...And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change y...
I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark....And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you...I'm talking about the ones who, for...
I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.
I don't understand, Jenna, why you couldn't give him a ride home? Mom struck the archetypal Mom pose-hands on hips, perplexed look on face, head tilted at that angle. He walked home in the pouring ra...
I didn`t say it didn`t feel good... They never tell you this part in sex ed, how to talk about what you did and why you did it and what you thought about it, before, during, and after.
I can't believe this crap. Jolly ranchers? Gummy worms? Katy rifled through the pile of candy she'd dumped onto Steph's floor. Where's the chocolate? Where's the candy corn?I Jolly Rangers, Steph sai...
His voice just shot through me. It’s amazing, the things your body will do just when you don’t want them to: heart speeding up, fingers aching. I’d always liked his voice, low and laid-back, the kind...
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
Because every thought she had, everything she observed around her, every conversation, every experience, everything that made her laugh - she imagined telling him, or him watching. She wanted herself,...
At the corner of K street and Fourth Avenue, I slowed down to let a pedestrian cross, a boy around my age. Maybe because he was so tall or maybe because of the way he walked-with a determined leaving...
And I’ll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light.