Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.
But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
She wanted him to notice her so much.
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.
I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.