Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.