The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.