I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.