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

“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 ...”

“A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.”

“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...”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”