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.

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.

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

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.

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 is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples’ feet

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

I love the traveling, of course. Not the flying, but the actual traveling.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?