Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken