“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”

“A woman may get to love by degreesthe best fire does not flare up the soonest.”

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just begin...”

“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beautyit flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... There are few prophets in the wo...”

“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.”

“In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastsensations which assert themsel...”

“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”

“you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry”

“So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemizd, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!”

“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceles...”

“It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threa...”