by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more a...
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.
Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.
Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend ...
I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.
Do you ever go back?" Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed.
Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.
When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say ...
For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, or even a month from now, but one day you're going to...
...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.
