“Is there such a thing as being too happy?”

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”

“Thats what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.”

“When youre in the wild, theres nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or security. Youre just alone with yourself. You look around and lose ...”

“Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.”

“Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they arent there.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then the...”

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”

“Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”