My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

No hay felicidad más grande que la que sientes al ayudar a los demás.

Romance is everything to turn it into a cause for given is priceless

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

But she never just accepted me for the way I was.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.