If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I think that different things sell in different countries.