And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real