Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.

Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.

One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can't breathe around it and you realize you don't need air.