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Good weather will do this to people, bond them in their gratefulness.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.

I'm sorry! It's just that it hurts so much and it never stops!

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

There are some things you never say good-bye to

Wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.

there's always a hope, you never know.

Here is the knowledge, so easy and mean: find what they love and wreck it. Simple.

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat.

Souls are ageless and care nothing for external circumstances.

Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.

Sometimes, just when you think you're going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There's only so much room in a human heart.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

I understood, that he was right in asking to be cremated. For if he was nowhere, he could be everywhere. As in, with me.

We're so far away from those stars

I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying is done, you see how the end is the beginning.

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

I think people see death as the hunter, but it's just the ticket taker, the timekeeper. It's the sound of a record playing in the background.

It feels strange to see him; it's been a while. I feel as though I need to meet him all over again.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

I do not believe the loss of a child is something one ever overcomes. One puts on the faces one needs, but inside, one bleeds and bleeds.

People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other.

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning ... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.

Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would you do, if it were possible?

I push pain away all day, and the moment I put my arms down it walks into me and has a seat. I

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice.

I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.

Healing hurts, but hurting heals.

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.

You once lay there, the vernix not yet wiped off, and someone gazed at you as if you were the first sunrise seen from the Earth.

Once you start making decisions in which your heart, mind, and soul are congruent, you'll feel it as a kind of lift, if not liftoff.

There I was, waiting, afraid I'd never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.

Books are like confort food without the calories

history is shaped by the belief systems of those who made it.

Isn't it really true that life is so beautiful because it's so fleeting and fragile?

No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years.

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

I just don't know anymore. God! I'm in a bad mood! It's like walking around in an itchy coat.

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For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let's go ahead and let her have it all.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

For what reason would I lie to one I so love?

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

She prefers cats to dogs, which is almost worse than being a conservative.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

She put her hand over her heart. Oh boy. It hurts. It's a real pain. Right here.

There was in it a moment of indignity, nearly comedic - a feeling that I had lost my balance. But I had not.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.

Sometimes it seems like a little moment brings a whole world with it.

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

Sometimes you know before you know.

Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

A human being writes the book, but what writes for him or her is more spirit than physical being, and that spirit lives only in solitude.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

My mother lost too much and repaired herself in the only way she was able to repair herself. That in fact she is repairing herself, hour by hour.

Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. I'm just going to grab your horns.

Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls
like comfort food without the calories.

...(we) laughed. It was so good to laugh. I felt as though I too were reentering my legitimate self.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more.
It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.

Now there's some honest writing!

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place to find the new thing.

A family is no place for privacy!

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.