I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

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.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.