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If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I’m missing.
“Things changed with the legalization of marijuana. The Mexican drug cartels saw their revenue stream fading, plowed their pot fields, and planted poppies.
The loss of hope is nearly as dangerous as the drug itself. Addicts have a lot of self-hatred. They believe they’re worthless.
Allie has a lot of fear she’s going to slip
back to using again. It can be d...
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Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.
Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don’t see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn’t we see something so obvious as color?”
“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.”
“It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time.
What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t y...
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“If you go in thinking you’re going to lose, you’ve already lost. If you go in thinking you’re going to win, you’ll be disappointed if you lose.
