Sometimes even the imagination lets one down..

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery..

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise..

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….