Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.