There are some things you don’t have a choice about, but there’s plenty you can choose. Like happiness. Like focusing on the positive.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic
Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens
Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She
Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.
She could scarcely move at all. Her muscles felt impossibly weak. Her limbs were gummy worms. She looked at her hands. Looked at her mother. Is that what happened to my manicure? It’s gone because I’v...
The main character saying things like In my world, chocolate is a vegetable.
There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into...
Seeking to distract her from further questions, he bent and blew lightly into her ear. She shivered. This horse bites, you know. I think he likes me. Almost as much as you do. I don’t like you. How ca...
Her whole body flared to life with a fiery blush. Maybe that was why the term old flame had been invented. Somebody always got burned.
There are many ways to make a family, and that’s really the essence of The Lakeshore Chronicles books. As each story ends, a new one unfolds. The one element they all have in common is the key ingredi...
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...
It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.
It’s all to do with the way you carry yourself, the way you face the world.
I’m fat, okay? Getting rid of my braces and glasses is not going to change that. Stop it, Camille said. God, why were teenagers so hard? Had she been that hard? I won’t let you talk about yourself tha...
I’ve never understood tourism. Where is the value in standing by and watching others live their lives?
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. —Alan Saporta, American musician
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. —Isak Dinesen
Perhaps Jamie hadn’t meant to teach her to bear up under unbearable pain, but he had shown her that appearances were everything, and illusion was a powerful tool.
No creature should ever be trapped against its will, she used to say. It will ruin itself, just trying to escape.
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