Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing