Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.