An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

Be who you are, and go the whole way.

The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap