Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, “See what you can make when you loose the reins.

All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.

Was it magic? Of course it was.

Fuel Your Ride with Positive Energy. Having desire, vision, and focus will help you turn your bus in the right direction, and positive energy is needed to take you where you want to go.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.