I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.

Life is meant to be lived in 'the zone', not the stands.

Every word is a prejudice.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.