I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
Life is filled with trapdoors.
For me, Superman’s greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it’s the Clark Kent part – the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.
History doesn’t choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
Our fathers never leave us. Ever.
There’s the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else – especially someone you love – that’s not just how you bury your past. It’s how you write you future.
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day. Some scars never heal. Then again, some do.
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
All writers steal from their own lives.
People are more twisted than people think.
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
But to me, the most important page in my daughter’s book is the last one – because it’s blank. It says ‘Your Hero’s Photo Here,’ and ‘Your Hero’s Story Here.’
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it.
So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
I understand pain. I’ve lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.
Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.
The only thing worse than remembering the past is the fear of reliving it.