“We grow too old to lose old friends.”

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

Step out from behind the words. When you’re a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they’re not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

You know how a river goes on and on? That’s my love for you.

Nothing erodes [a mother’s love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.