Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.

Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen.My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.

But sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less.

All the world's a stage, but actors aren't the only ones who play roles.Even when you're not following a script, you might as well be. You don't behave the same way in front of everyone. You know what...

As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.

Only the liar knows that he's lying.

Frankly, people don't make sense to me.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for...

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills...

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands...

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?