Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.