Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

The law was given to crush our self-confidence and drive us to Jesus.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.