What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
I was full of struggles! And that made me so happy: If I was full of struggles, maybe I was interesting!
Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.
I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they re...
Something I am wondering:if you cannot heardo you have no soundsin your head?Do you seea silent movie
Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.
Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
And when she goes home,' Uncle Max said, 'to the place and the people she has romanticized all these months, she’ll see that it isn’t all she imagined. She’ll be different, but they’ll all expect her...
Am I supposed to do something ? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet in this country in this state in this town in this family.
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might st...