Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.