Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.

Empathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

I want my name to mean me.

I'll love you forever. EvenEven when i can't.

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.

I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?