After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

Hope can get you through anything.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"Catherine: "I cannot tell."Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.