I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

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.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.