When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

Time itself made all things rare.