Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.Some scars never heal.Then again, some do.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.