Maybe mothers – consciously or subconsciously – repelled their daughters in different ways.
It felt like I’d been living underground, and for a moment, I’d been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you’ve seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.
When you love someone – when you create a child with him – you don’t just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can’t be destroyed, just channeled into something else.
When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.
So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I’d forgotten to communicate?
There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?
The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.
I think there are two different oceans – the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.
I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.
Here’s what I hadn’t realized: the mother you haven’t seen for almost thirty-six years isn’t your mother, she’s a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn’t make you fast friends. This wasn’t a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.
Maybe a mother wasn’t what she seemed to be on the surface.
People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn’t be the cost of failure for a good friend.
I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.
Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
I shouldn’t have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that’s the only way to find out the truth.
There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.