I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

People make the rules of society, not God.

I don't think she's ever coming back.

I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play...

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.

The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

I'm more than just an option.

For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.