But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much
What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?
Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.
there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.
so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.
i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive
think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.
something is always falling apart in me.
is it like this every night, while we're asleep?
Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
People change, but only if you give them room to do it.
I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.
Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.
Does fate ever play by the rules?
I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?
Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear.
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.
Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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