“Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?”

But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

Looking for the good in people is never stupid.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

Some things are just perfect, even when they don’t make any sense

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn’t inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better – the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.

I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.