I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.