The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.

When a human's tears dry up forever, they transform into a monster

Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.