Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart
Le lacrime più amare sparse sopra le tombesono per le parole non dette e le azioni non fatte.Harriet Beecher Stowe
L'amour n'est pas l'absence de logiqueMais une logique arrangée et réarrangée
I’ve heard people say My heart stopped—which of course isn’t possible unless you’ve just died—but I now understood where the perception might originate.
I’m fine. I’m good. But I wasn’t fine. I was anything but fine. That night had shattered me. I’d walled myself in to keep from breaking further, but no defence will protect you from every possible pai...
I'm eighteen, so he's right-- there's no hurry. I don't tell him how much I want that sort of connection-- a relationship like he and Mom share. The trust and respect between them is plain to see, but...
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.
I have only one truth to stand on. I. Love. Her.
I dreamed about the future because that’s what people persuade you to do when you’re a kid, but that’s the biggest lie of all – that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what’s coming an...
Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating-- something that shattered your self-confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to pie...
Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. We are not, his voice is a gentle tremor, breaking up
First love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and gratified. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sket...
Everything isn't fixable, and miracles are only happy twists of fate. Fate can so easily twist in the opposite direction.
Erin you' re dangerous. Iknow.
As soon as we hit campus freshman year, Kennedy had pledged his father’s fraternity. Despite my boyfriend’s need for cliquish affiliation, I’d never shared that aspiration. He didn’t seem to mind when...
Smugly on the other side of Kelly, our pianist, who’d opted
Thus began the weeks of what we termed being reckless - and I worry from that viewpoint, at least, that word defines our entire relationship. Reid lives his life in a reckless way, and ever since his...
They say the brain can block painful memories, leaving gaps and voids in place of them, but it didn’t work like that for me. I remembered everything.
The world an author creates and the characters that inhabit it may come from her imagination alone, but few authors can wrestle the story that emerges into shape without help.
Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no o...