I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.