I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.""Sure it does, " Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

I was up all night just to talk to myself about you.

Mostly, I make sure to stay keenly aware of my own shortcomings so that I am more patient with others.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

I love collaborating outside of my space.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.