I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.