You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.