All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Rogerson, " I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea, " he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Turn the mess of your life to a message of triumph for the world.

Life demands death to self

I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

You are NOT a financial failure if you rent. You are getting something for your money. A roof over your head.

Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.

I don't like to sit still.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.