I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever". Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

The only way to have room enough in our hearts to truly love others is to purge all hatred, and replace it with love.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!