He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things

The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

Intention is everything. If your intention is to find meaning in your life, then your life shall be filled with an enriched sense of purpose and satisfaction.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.