She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.

An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.

He just got in the car, but the batteries dead. So he asks to use the phone and she gives him some head.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

I think every company is set by who founded it and who's in charge.

Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.