You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."