If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.