Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got ever...
One day i will have to forgive life for ending. I tell myself I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality.....just be what ti is.
The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail.
People say love gets fouled by a difference big as ours. I didn’t know for sure whether Miss Sarah’s feelings came from love or guilt. I didn’t know whether mine came from love or a need to be safe. S...
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's hard. If God said in plain language, I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die, a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spiritu...
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in th...
Quien cree que no hay nada peor que morirse poco sabe de la vida.
Readiness for dying arrives by attending the smallest moment and finding the eternal inside of it.
Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside....
Regrets don't help anything.
Sarah was up in her room with her heart broke so bad, Binah said you could hear it jangle when she walked.
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn't have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails un...
She loved me and pitied me. And I loved her and used her. It never was a simple thing. That day, our hearts were pure as they ever would get.
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