Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.