Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.