Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.