When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.