On the other hand, I think cats have Asperger's. Like me, they're very smart. And like me, sometimes they simply need to be left alone.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

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

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.

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.