I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.