I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.
Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
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.
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.
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size.
I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.
Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.
When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.
I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?
Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do
That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person
What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?
Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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