I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow.

You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves.

The time that we kill keeps us alive.