I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.