I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
Jodi Picoult
I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.
suffering
I don't know. But I know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want, not.I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss. And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.
forever
Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
morality obsession
Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup. If you ask me, music is the language of memory.
music memory
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
music relationships memories romance
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
mystery truth fiction drama speak jodi-picoult novel empty
I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.
mystery
Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.
reading truth
The first time someone I loved left me behind..I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.
family relationships
You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.
relationships tolerance acceptance gay-rights
Males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.
relationships
Because in the past words have only driven them apart.
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