Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.

Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say