What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

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.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

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.

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle