What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.