Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together. - Jodi Picoult

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

In the moments before, she laid a hand on his arm. 'No matter what,' she said, giving him a look, 'you cannot stop.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.