One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.