Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

He asked her for coffee, but she wanted tea instead.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

The batshit kind of love that makes no sense at all… and at the same time… all the sense in the world… That is us… You and me

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.