The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.