Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

You are precious and special possession of God.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction then ... life is on the road toward misfortune misery and destruction.

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.