“But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.”

“When you have truly come to know a person, Nella -- when you see beneath the sweet gestures, the smiles -- when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide -- then forgiveness is ev...”

“1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.”

“Your medal is there already in your heart, in how you think, feel and act toward yourself.”

“It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”