She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.
When she was little and a bad dream woke her, Gran would advise her to change the channel by turning her pillow over. It worked every time.
She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
She parked and got out of the car, feeling the wind sweep upward over her, lifting the hem of her jacket, ruffling her hair. She walked to the edge of the cliff and for a long time, stood frozen and s...
Time and circumstances could batter away at it, like waves on a rocky shore, but for some people, love never died.
You’re right. I have no heart because I lost it to you.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. —Marilyn Monroe
We can move past our history, but we can never truly erase it.
A group of villagers in the highlands of Vietnam, he’d discovered the crash site of four U.S. soldiers who had gone missing fifty years before.
The empty prairie, crisscrossed by a grid of startlingly straight roads, rolled out like a vast wasteland in front of the hood ornament of the GTO. It was remarkable, Sarah thought, how quickly the su...
Survival was a powerful driving force, stronger than hatred and love combined.
They basked in the sweet-scented breeze, and felt the sunshine warming their bare heads. Petals drifted from the gnarled apple and cherry trees, creating a pretty storm, like confetti. They lay togeth...
The Immigration Reform Act wiped out that option. Used to be, if undocumented parents could prove their deportation would put a U.S. citizen—in this case, you, AJ—at risk, the judge could let them sta...
You cannot make a man love me any more than you can keep a flower from turning its face to the sun. Nature has endowed us with certain urges. That’s why we speak of the magic of love.
We don’t realize how wonderful today is until tomorrow. —Amish proverb
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. —Alan Saporta, American musician
The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward,
The chilly blue of loneliness was a shadow on snow. The
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. —Isak Dinesen
Stopped right in the middle of the path, cast a furtive glance left and right and then pressed his mouth in full lockdown mode upon hers. Ew.
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