Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.