The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

The thing about Wes," Delia said to me, unwrapping another package of turkey, "is that he thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.

Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.