The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

Greatest companion is found in reading great books.

I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.

I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

Being disabled doesn't mean you have a disadvantage