The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.

...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't.When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are--how impossible to reach.

Reaching and reached. Cassia

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.

We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land bel

Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, ” Kirkland said.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

You have to have a full-length mirror in your house so you can see what is missing and what you have to add to your look.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

Only by love is life made real.