Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

You can miss a person you've never known.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.