Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.


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Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it. Usua...
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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...
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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover...
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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened whe...
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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...
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If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice ...
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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wis...
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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.
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Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and ...
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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have...
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the...
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
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It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know...
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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of ...
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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewi...
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There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. ...
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire und...
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I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard...
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If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s be...
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There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's som...
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A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.
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Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or whe...
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You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you ...
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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...
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Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
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I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.
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It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
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It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.
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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same...
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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up cr...
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It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants ri...
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true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a...
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Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
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It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
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The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
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I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I...
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Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.
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Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expe...
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...
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You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu...
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I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.
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When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...
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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked...
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The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh...
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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that th...
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Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon bel...
JODI KANTOR
I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this paren...
JODI BENSON
I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance p...
JODI RELL
Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to...
JODI RELL
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
JODI RELL
We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to wo...
JODI RELL
The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation t...
JODI RELL