I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

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.