“Lonelys a different kind of pain, it doesnt hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it cause I reckoned it was one or the other.”

“I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.”

“My girl, always hated frogs, Jackie stated when shed controlled her hilarity.Thats right, Mom, Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, Im a girl therefore I hate frogs. Id get kicked out of the g...”

“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”

“I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sy...”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”