Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

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.

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

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.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.