Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth’s charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

Souls aren’t discrete units — or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.

For everything about him fitting her fantasy image of what she wanted, she still didn’t feel seen by him…and that made her all the more aware that maybe her fantasy wasn’t what she wanted at all.

Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don’t achieve that in reality.

There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.

Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.

Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.