I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.