Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.