May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.