“I tell myself Im fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.”

“I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. Its the living. Those of us left behind.”

“I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.”

“there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.”

“I'm completely out of control, and I can hear the beginnings of the chant, get/out/, but now that I'm not being touched maybe I can master it and I shut the world out: separating an orange into ski...”

“I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.”

“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.”

“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...”