Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

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

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.