I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

Of course. You get everything from books.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?

Don't wish, "said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

This is what fun is like, " said Rain, almost to herself.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.

It doesn't matter how much money we have or how much we own here on Earth-we have to die and leave it all-that's the plain truth

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I will be fully awake in today.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

Angie, I've seen my mom wrestle two cops to the ground with a taser dart in her neck, and you cry when your shoes pinch. Good luck, Bambi!

If you are explaining, you are losing.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it