Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

Life is scarier than death.

She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes