I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.