I'm grateful for my children, who are slowly emerging to become their own wonderful, interesting, compassionate young adults - which makes me believe that along the way I must have done something right.
No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.
Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?
If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?
Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.
What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.
If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.
Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.
My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.
you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.
Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.
Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.
The problem isn’t with rock lyrics, it’s with the fabric of this society itself.
Since it had gotten so quiet in the room that you could hear the sound of your own doubts.
People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.
He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.
What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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