I realize then that it’s not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.

The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it’s like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to...

You dumb-ass,” I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. “You don’t share me. You own me.

Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze’s chase while the land colored up in...

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don’t seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So...

Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her – infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust – no longer hold water, because...

The day is ending; it’s not coming back.

So, this is how it’s become? This is how I’ve become? A walking contradiction? I’m surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some,...

Don’t be scared…Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You’ll find out one day.

…I don’t want to lose you because of the f**ked-up way I found you.

You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.

Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it’s like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point...

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the...

And just in general, I’m better. Better than I’ve been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn’t break my hear. But I’m beginning to wonder...

Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me…your love binds us.’…The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim’s notion that they were somehow...

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

Forgivenesss: It’s a miracle drug. It’s God’s miracle drug.

I don’t hate you. I don’t think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

He finally says it.

Fake it ’till you make it.

Tôi biết Kim sẽ suy sụp sau khi tôi chết, nhưng tôi ngẫm về những điều cô nói, về chuyện không lo sợ,về chuyện vào tù còn dễ dàng hơn mất tôi, đó là lý...

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he’d been waiting for her. And there she was.

Forward momentum. That’s my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I’ve had in my life has...

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn’t leave a scar, though part...

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.

Stains are even worse when you’re the only one who can see them.

The talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

I’m not sure if the question’s rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I’m in no state to answer either way because I’m crying. I don’t realize it...

And it was like I knew, and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people’s capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I’m...

At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They never came out very well, and you could get postcards of these things....

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I’m feeling things at last. I’m feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound...

…being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I’ve been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then...

It’s like you’re averse to adventure.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

…Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we’d slept like hell but also feel good because the...

Dying is easy. Living is hard

For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

And that’s when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I’m still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he’s in love with now, Willem...

…no way through it but through it,” I tell myself.

After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I’d wanted to be able to do that, too. So...

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I’ve heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The...

Annoyance has made me bilingual.