Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

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.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.