I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinit…

- Carolyn Parkhurst

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

- Carolyn Parkhurst

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

- Carolyn Parkhurst

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

- Carolyn Parkhurst

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value o…

- Carolyn Parkhurst

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we thi…

- Carolyn Parkhurst

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

- Carolyn Parkhurst

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every mi…

- Carolyn Parkhurst

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

- Carolyn Parkhurst