The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else—grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.

Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate.

I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

I'm the devil's advocate. We have our own worshipers.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.