“The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.”

“There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.”

“Old age is having the name of a chiropractor in your wallet. It's cutting out coupons for the zeal of discounted small items and the practice of fine motor skills.”

“She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear”