Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

If he invited you out, he's got to pay.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

The more you know, the more you owe.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.