But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

When you love someone you let them take care of you.