“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger tha...”

“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”

“Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.”

“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”

“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place with...”

“I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addi...”

“It must be difficult to be a mother, she continued thoughtfully. To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest all of your heart in it, only to have them grow up and not need you anymore...”

“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...”

“A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those me...”

“Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby”

“I heard raindrops in the nightPattering upon my eaves,Like a pleasing lullabyEasing me back to sleep,Which I thought was odd a bit,For I awoke because of it.”