There is more to living than not dying, " he said. "Look at the way you live, Will. You burn as bright as a star.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was.

So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have a feeling his ego isn't going to go for that suggestion.

Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.