We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.

I'm sorry, I sobbed. I'm helpless.That's where you're wrong, she told me. You're mot helpless. You need help. There's a big difference.

Better safe than sorry!

Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right every time.

Here's what girlfriends do for you: they provide the reality check. They are the ones who tell you when you have spinach between your teeth or when your ass looks fat in a pair of jeans or when you're...

The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it's the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.

If there's a physical component to falling in love-the butterflies in your stomach, the roller coaster of your soul-then there's an equal physical component to falling out of love. It feels like your...

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

Where did you go?To the end of the driveway, my mother says. I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out.I wince. Do you...

I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom,...

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

Music is the language of memory

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard -...

I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this.I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive.Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is...

Go fuck yourself Judge.Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.

Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you...

I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.

The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea...

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem...

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball...

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.