Extraits

We’re all babies, Beth. Crawling before we walk. Every new step is a challenge. But if we don’t take those baby steps, those risks, then we never grow.

I know how beautiful the intimacy of two bodies touching can be. But now I’ll always know the very same touch can be full of violence and hate.

I think writing is by definition an act of optimism. Even when what you’re writing about is painful or tragic.

That’s the thing about so many of these Chandies. They’ve all had families who just shovel all their problems away for them, so they see life as one big open road with no obstacles.

Nonfiction is about telling the truth. Fiction is about telling your truth. Fiction is a mystery only its author can solve. You.

Knowing how to write and choosing to share that writing with the world are very different things

There was so much snow that it even covered the school motto on all the campus benches and buildings.

Veritas vos liberabit.

It’s as if nature knew that truth will not, as it turns out, liberate us all. It takes more than truth to liberate. It takes action

If you had a choice between telling the truth and hurting someone you love or keeping a secret that eats away at you, which would you choose? I think most people would choose to keep the secret. We weren’t most people.