For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

The only certainty is death.

The reason of lifeThe meaning of lifeAnd the road of life Is LOVE.

The light shines in the soul, awaken the spirit and gives clearer sight.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Let the other person save face.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.

I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.