They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

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.

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

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.

I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica

Life is an amazing wonder.

Everything we do means something.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

It's not about how fast you go. It's not about how far you go. It's a process.

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry