And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again

I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, "Eh, no one else likes to read but me; I must be crazy!"

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.