You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.

How many lovers did a person need, anyway?

Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.

We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.

Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are thrown.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins