“Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.”

“Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.”

“Submission is a tyrannical discipline.”

“I wonder why the vast majority of humanity fears the truth and the unknown.”

“Divorce and separation, is the realization that, one of the two, no longer is growing his or her way to prosperity, next to that other person.”

“We are worth fighting for, we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madness.”

“Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.”

“Not everyone stays forever. You have to learn to let go.”

“My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”