We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.