Everything changes, and there’s no denying that. But change isn’t always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.

When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.

Love when you can, and fight when you must, but stand together and never give up, not to the enemy, and not on each other.

No mere mortal can do what the Son of man did

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

If self is a location, so is love.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.