“As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.”

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

I’ll never fall in love again it’s like having two souls at the same time.

Time was not passing it was turning in a circle.

If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.

Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

I liked you better when you were drunk .

I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

New clothes won’t fill the void. Money won’t make you happy. Attention won’t heal past wounds. Things won’t finally make you feel better. If it’s broken its broken. These are distractions from the real work.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you’ll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

I want to be better at being single, and I want to be better at feeling okay about being single. I don’t need a boyfriend.