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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 ex...more

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I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when w...more

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Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is ...more

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...courage wasn’t something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn’t a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love matte...more

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Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

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But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a pi...more

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but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everythin...more

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

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Isn’t that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is ...more

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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the e...more

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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 t...more

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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a g...more

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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

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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 the...more

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