I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness..

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive..

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel n….

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?.

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect..

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives..

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love..

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and give….

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it..

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowle….

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the….

And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter o….

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in th….

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away..

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was..

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments..

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness..

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not b….

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over l….

The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than….

Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice….