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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The incarnation is not a soul into a body, it is an illusory world known as a life into consciousness.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.

You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries.

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.