I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.