It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.