That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else