I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever would have been as a lawyer. I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere." - My Sister's Keeper

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.