“We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.”

“I cant quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them.”

“Love is insanity, apparently.”

“Love is something you have or dont have. Love is like a fever.”

“It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether youre married or not.”

“Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, theres still space for sweet things.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“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.”