Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

I can’t imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up andsurrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.

I don’t need those memories, Kai. We can make new ones. We… can start over. Just like we’ve met only yesterday.

Ramming it up the middle only works if you soften the defenses up a little first, " the coach said.

Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

I think you can't really reach the emotionally intense stuff without having built a genuine light, playful, connected energy, to begin with.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.