Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is