Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

The holes in my jeans ans the holes in my boots make me whole!

can you see how amazing the Sun in Winter? so beautiful like a miracle", and he looked at me and said "The Sun is like a miracle just in Winter, but you are a mirace in my life".

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.