“Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.”

“When the truth emerges, it cant be ignored. Nor will it wait.”

“Being friends is different from being lovers. Its a sea change.”

“Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.”

“Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things workand what to do when they break.”

“Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.”

“THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...”

“People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence”

“The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.”