Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us.
I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.
Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.
I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.
I will fight for you, and if you know me well enough, you know i am pretty darn good at winning.
When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.
One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.
I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.
The moment my niece came into the world, I realized that logic can't make sense of someone who's so brand new to you.
Everyday's a honeymoon. Cuz darling, I love you to the moon.
Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.
I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.
Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.
One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.
I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.
When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.
Characters are the lifeblood of any good book.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
