Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from all those imagined and now impossible futures all pressing in on you at once. It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.