If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

I think I deserve something beautiful.

We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.