Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so I'm excited to see what he does with it. I know it's not going to be my book, so just starting with that knowledge frees me from having to get all freaked out about it.

Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.