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?

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.