I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.