Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?