What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Life is a journey. If you can’t walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

From where I sit now, I like the looks of tomorrow.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.