I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.