Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Here’s another change I’ve noticed: The dark is more than the sun dropping off, more than the moon and the stars. It’s what you can’t see that you hope you will see, what hasn’t been that might be.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.