I would rather love and have my heart broken than never have had the feeling of love at all. Without love, what would you live for?

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.

Foever is composed of nows.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

There's no such thing as a lost cause.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.