School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.
All I’d ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Let’s just start and see what happens.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I’m not proud of. I wasn’t a good student and I wasn’t particularly a good daughter. I wasn’t very engaged.
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn’t. People weren’t meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I’d never have any time to write.
Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it’s not what we want, at least it’s something.
Look, the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren’t what people wanted to hear.
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over...
There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.