War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

The sweet fragrance of a fresh New Year!

To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Worship is love responding to love.