“New links must be forged as old ones rust.”

“Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.”

“Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be ...”

“I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.”

“Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.”

“Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be inno...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“She has her own brand of strength,brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin.”

“The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.”

“You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'”

“I love you butdon't know what todo.”

“It's like I'm reading a book, andit's a book I deeply love, but I'mreading it slowly now so the wordsare really far apart and the spacesbetween the words are almostinfinite. I can still feel you an...”

“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”