The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

Is this base? Is this base?

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.