Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

She trailed off when she realised Will was turning a dull red. For a big, muscular guy, he sure blushed a lot.

Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

I don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.