“She can look at you and make you feel like youre the only one in the world. Even if its not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would be true. She would look at her child f...”

“We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it”

“She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two points of her clavicle. Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, ...”

“Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.”

“The digging continues ... Ground Zero it looks more and more like a construction site. Too much of the horror is gone. No fire. No smoke ... What was war becomes peace, becomes peaceful. But in the...”

“And I'd noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there's darkness under her eyes like she hasn't slept well for too many days, alm...”

“You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.”

“Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.”

“Even you cant tell yourself how to change, because you didnt create you. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the univer...”

“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the conse...”

“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is...”

“Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”