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.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.