When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.