Salem Falls

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your futue

A filament of sensation sizzled between them, like a thin string of kerosene that, for the love of a match, could turn into a wall of fire.

I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.