I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I’ve thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

Anna: Ash, I don’t have anything planned with my Mother… She’s dead.Ashley: What?Anna: She died when I was seven. She drowned. It’s just my Dad and me. I didn’t tell you before because I just...

I knew that meant we were done and that we’d smooth over the surface I’d just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples,...

Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it...

I can’t say I wasn’t hoping for it, but I didn’t see it coming.

When he saw Tyler, his face went serious, which struck me as comical. Andy had always been protective, but when it came to me having anything to do with guys, he felt it was his...

He always told me to look strong, even if I didn’t feel it, because sometimes, that’s all you can do.

I’d give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could...

I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.

Each heartbeat begins with a single, electrical impulse, or “spark.” The distinctive sound we hear through a stethoscope, or when we place our head on a loved one’s chest, is the sound of the heart...

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.” — Blaise Pascal

[I]t wasn’t history that was too fragile, but me.

You know… sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that’s left is this. A moment like a poem.

I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance....