We are born knowing death.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.