Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Love gives with its eyes closed

Only trials can bring you triumph and only obstacles can bring you miracle.

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.

We all know it's safer to beat up on people who won't retaliate, ' he told her, 'but it's a quick way to lose friends. You need to find ways of dealing with confrontation when it happens.

To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.