Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story....There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.Don't let me go crazy.The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.

The moon's a crazy sweetheart.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

Export of terror by any country (eventho a low cost operation) always undermines strategic balance.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?