In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

I would love to saythat youmake meweak in the kneesbutto be quite upfrontand completelytruthfulyoumake my bodyforgetit has kneesat all.

There is more light than darkness, there has always been.

Be gentle, always delicatewith every soulyou meet, for every single morningyou wake up, there is someoneWishing, silentlyand secretly, that theyhad not.

Part those sheetslike holy watersand I will worship you skinlike a born-againbeliever.

If you give me homeI will give you adventure.It's both we can have.

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

Loyalty makes you family

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

The good is the enemy of the best.

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.