I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Survivors of trauma may have difficulty initiating relationships ...

there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.

People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.'

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.