I’ve always sort of wondered: If everyone else’s opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong.
When we’re awake, we see what we need to see. When we’re asleep, we see what is really there.
You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?
Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.
Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.
I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized.
Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young. But I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up.
I know you love me. The question is, how much?
It took me a lifetime to realizethings don’t get lost if they don’t have value- you don’t miss what you don’t care about.
Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I’m cut into so many pieces that there isn’t enough of me to be put back together.
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home.
A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.
If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that’s approaching. Try it any other way and you’ll go crazy.
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
That’s the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don’t even realize how much you were missing one.
His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.
Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.
No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.