Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

Emperor, king, general, duke, ” he whispered to himself. “These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you’ll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

When intention is supported by effort, success follows.