- The person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.
- High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrugged and offered you a bloody, apologetic smile.
- Modern women had been driven so far from the home they no longer felt comfortable inside it.
- A guy can't hurt you if you don't let him.
- The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
- You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny; you were too busy trying to fit in.
- Power always involved a loss of humanity.
- The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.
- When you fooled around without the feelings attached, it might not mean anything...but then again, neither did you.
- When your significant other was missing, it wasn't the same bed. There was a void on the other side, a cosmic black hole, one that you couldn't roll too close to without falling into a chasm of memories.
- Random hookups weren't random, no matter what you told yourself.
- The only thing worse than not feeling anything was feeling everything.
- A word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted at you to make you bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to you to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.
- You couldn't have strenth without weakness; you couldn't have light without dark; you couldn't have love without loss.
- If you acted like you really wanted something even when you didn't, you just might convince yourself along with everyone else.
- How much had gone wrong between him and Laura. Maybe you had to scrape the bottom before you could push your way back to the surface.
- It was possible that everyone had two faces: Some of us just did a better job of hiding it than others.
- At any crossroads in life, half of us are destined to take a wrong turn.
- The problem with coming clean was that you thought you were clearing the slate, starting over, but it never quite worked that way. You didn't erase what you'd done. The stain would still be there.
- The best decisions in a marriage were based not on honesty but on the number of casualties that the truth might cause, versus the number saved by ignorance.
- Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
- Maybe it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.
- The person you were when you went to sleep at night might not necessarily be the person you were when you woke up.
- People's lives were as tightly woven as a piece of lace, and pulling on one string might furrow another.
- It wasn't what you didn't know about the people you loved that would shock you; it was what you didn't want to admit about yourself.
- Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to. And some people make the choice to let go.
- One day when your alarm clock rang, you got up and realized you had someone else's thoughts in your head...or maybe just your old ones, minus the hope.
- For every action, there was an opposite reaction. But maybe you could undo your wrongs by keeping someone else from making the same mistakes of misjudgment.
- You did what you had to, for the people you cared about.
- Was it tough love, putting your child through hell? Or was it the best of parenting, a way to make sure your child could survive without you?
- A thought might turn into an action at any moment; a word held in your mind had just as much power to wound or to heal as the one that was spoken aloud.
- If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.
- Sometimes what we wish for actually comes true. And sometimes that's the very worst thing that can happen.
- Just because you chose to leave a place did not mean you could escape taking it with you.
6/28/2008
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