The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.

You are hatching from the past.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

Now do you understand? I am never changing who I am.

Your angels guide you every second of every day. You are not alone and never will be!

There are so many people out there that will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me!

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.

God will never allow a challenge that will surmount us; we are always greater than our challenges.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.