The threat of taking something away makes us appreciate it more.
I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.
To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.
I was going to be a memory when I grew up.
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.
I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.
Violation is a synonym for intercourse.
On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date. ' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.
We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars. . . It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.