How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The sti...
It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks
Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.
Hay una cosa que he sabido desde pequeño: que la vida nos hace daño a todos sin que podamos evitarlo. Pero ahora estoy aprendiendo algo nuevo: que podemos sanarnos. Sanarnos los unos a los otros.
—Sí, a veces la vida es un asco —responde ella—, pero ¿sabes por qué la aguanto? Arqueo las cejas. Ella también las arquea, imitándome. —Por los momentos que no son un asco —explica—. El truco es fijarse en ellos cuando aparecen.
She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just st...
