“It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.”

It hurts being the one who loves more

It’s frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me – a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I’d loved him as my everything, long after I’d begun to love him as a friend.

Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

I care,” he said in a trembling voice. “I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how.

I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Sadness doesn’t equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

Being brave doesn’t mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it’s the right thing to do.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

What’s good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.