47 quotes
American writer and novelist
“Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.”
"In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone."
on Truth
"You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters."
on Love
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it..."
"What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love."
"Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?"
on Faith
"I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching."
on Hope
"Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time."
on Life
"For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams."
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
"Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever."
on Wisdom
"Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding."
on Writing
"Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver."
"People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why."
on Philosophy
"Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again."
"Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said."
on Communication
"It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things."
on Learning
"Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature."
"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can."
"I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change."
"Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person."
on Mindfulness
