Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.
We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.
From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I wa...
The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the ye...
I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,
We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.
And why is it all men thinkeverything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain sillydrivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of findingthe perfect love?
Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back tears? I had grown older, and had lost enthusiasm for childish delights. I wanted...
We will not open healed wounds!""My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!
Just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my...
It's better not to make a promise than to make one you can't keep.
Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.
I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.
A Colder breeze lifted a dead leaf to the roof and sent it scuttling merrily on its way to catch in my hair. It crackled dry and brittle when Chris plucked it out and held it, just staring down at a d...
I don't know if it's for the better, but I do know people aren't static. We all change from day to day.
Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel.I laughed sort and bitterly. That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of--when I kn...
We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.
Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart.