Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.