Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.