This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.