I loved Ian in the now, the way he looked at me, how he made my stomach swim, how he held my hair when I was puking my guts up after eating a bad enchilada. That’s love.

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.

Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.

Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud

This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.

You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.

Life is an amazingly mysterious and interesting game. To win, you have to play with the magical powers of love and kindness.

Never stay still, you'll end up with roots.

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.

If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

The one thing I believe is that families are off-limits. And I think my husband said it, and he was clear on that. And I totally agree with him.