There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.

I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.