When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.
The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.
The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.
My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?
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.
Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.
Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.
What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
if you don't get sick, you won't get well.
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.
I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
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