You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.

What separates the best from the rest is just the attitude.

Words aren't made — they grow, ' said Anne.

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.

Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.