My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

The greatest conduct is love in action.

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

Hugs are nourishment for the heart.

Destruction was calm, almost content- would he next break out in song like a Disney princess?

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

I will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.