The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.

I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writingbecause I don't know howmuch longer I can hold on.

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called

Her smile hollowed out his chest. She’d changed since last he saw her. She was brighter. More vibrant. Happiness suited her.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.