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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.
When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.
And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?
do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.
In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.
Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?
Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?
You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.
Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.
There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.
When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?
Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.
Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.
She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.