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

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.