They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that’s out of alighment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive...

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Logically, I understand that it wasn’t Edward’s fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you’re eleven years old, you don’t give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big...

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you’ve got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won’t be able...

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents – the question is, how much?

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each...

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed–sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which...

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I’d been handed a fistful of crushed violets from...

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with...

In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you walked through the rubble and told yourself that it wasn’t nearly as bad as it...

You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.

You don’t have to say I love you to say I love you,” you said with a shrug. “All you have to do is say my name and I know.”…”Can’t you hear it?” you said....

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart...

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,” she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?

She didn’t like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn’t see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people...

You want to know what I want? I’m sick of being a guinea pig. I’m sick, but I’m never f*cking sick enough for this family.

The English judged a person so that they’d be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they’d be justified in welcoming her back. Where I’m from, if someone is accused...

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there’s a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can’t help but see...

Campbell” Julia says “Don’t do this to me””Do what?””Push me off the same cliff twice

It’s about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who...

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don’t need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I’ll come back as catnip.

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could...

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool’s gold in the hardest shard of rock.

You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

…in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself…the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.

I love you,” he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs...

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall.

But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Change isn’t always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.

Sometimes parents don’t find what they’re looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they’d like to grow there instead. I’ve witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son...

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

I don’t understand why people never say what they mean. It’s like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn’t...

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are...

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn’t tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a...

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.

Maybe a mother wasn’t what she seemed to be on the surface.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you...

When you read the art,