If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.