Marriage can wait, education cannot.
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.
Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
You can not stop you from being who you are.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...
There is a way to be good again...