This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.

When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.

He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.

Love no longer becomes a feeling - it becomes a storm.

I found there are many things women ask for in a love. Other women demand money, power, or adventure. All I pray for is that he is patient, and plead that he will love me.

Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

I will never ask of you the impossible, I just ask you to love me in the best way you can.

It is funny how when you have been hurt in love and you fall in love again, every reason you have for loving that person is both enough and not, all at once.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

Cats are independent, by which I mean smart.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.

Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

You know, party every day until 6 a.m. and then sleep during the day.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.