I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead...

Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?

Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

I feel intimidated by fashion.

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down.