This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.