Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.