I don’t think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
We are assumed to be rather hopeless – swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
As far as I’m concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.
This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?
If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.
I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.
Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.
I thought of the priest who’d told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
You must never check for a person’s pulse using your thumb, or you’ll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I’m the one who’s here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
You don’t get everything all at once. You wait.
It will happen when you’re not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I’ve always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.
I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.
Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don’t agree.