Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

Nobody should go through life without falling in love.

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.