If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.