We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.