The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent’s own independence.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

Gran, for the gods’ love, it’s talk like yours that starts riots!” I said keeping my voice down. “Will you just put a stopper in it?”She looked at me and sighed. “Girl, do you ever...

Caidi to Jacin: “Do you know why I love you?”Jacin: “No.”Caidi: “Because you love so big, even when you don’t want to. Because you can’t help it. And because you need it back, but you...

I’m not the boss of my house. I don’t know how I lost it, I don’t know when I lost it, I don’t really think I ever had it. But I’ve seen the boss’s job…and...

If I could turn my thoughts into spoken words and share them with someone, they’d become real and mean something. Now, they were only lines that could be erased when I didn’t feel them anymore...

Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.

I shake my head. “Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes.” She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek “No mistakes, my angel.

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

My litter sister looks up at me.Mom was right. Her eyes are the same as they’ve always been. Brown eyes fringed with long lashes and steeped with the memory of sweetness and light, laughter and...

A man that loves and cherishes his woman and his family is a man of honor.