To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die, ” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

I believe in angels. I believe in God.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.