At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

It's too noisy near the surface. To be able to concentrate with all your being, you must shut out all distractions. You must listen with your soul.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.