“Its just so strange.You used to love me,and now youre a strangerwho happens to know allof my secrets.”

“Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.”

“All this timeI drank you like the cure when maybeyou were the poison.”

“My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and overEvery day. That is the best andworst part of me.”

“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying tree climb jumps. Growing up, my backyard was a forest of blackberry bushes. ...”

“But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though its nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“Go outside. Dont tell anyone and dont bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day ou...”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”