Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.