And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

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.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.