“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. ”

“It seems to me that we cant explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we cant fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer ...”

“I had not said anything about what had happened the day beforeabout being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us ...”

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for th...”

“Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.”

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, runningthat's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the b...”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”