Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

I'm a one-man kind of girl, and I only want a man who's a one-woman man.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion