So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Every life has a sound

Better safe than sorry!

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

Loneliness is an emaciation of the spirit. -Who Has Known Heights: The Mystique Memoirs of a Melancholic Mind

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

I don't know how you're standing here. Yet you haven't broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I'm not sure you can be broken.

People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?