Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

Anna, " he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.

The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.

It's rally bad when dads cry.

I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.

Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.

He may be a nobody to you, but he's a somebody to someone else!

Unforgiveness is so much stress, I tell you. You just keep going round in circles instead of taking a straight path which forgiveness offers.

He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

When it's cold & dark at night, and we're alone together, I long to take you in my arms, and cuddle you forever.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

Chiropractic was the key to keeping me in the game.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.