Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there will always be...

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

I was just existing, but he made me want to live.

He was her moon. He balanced out her tides.

Because even this - - being so close to her - - was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her - - he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of...

Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self - hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.

Oh, darlin', I'm gonna walk you through it, kiss you through it, feel you through it, taste you through it. Hell, I'm hoping you call out my name through it, but for some reason, if I can't get you...

Love is always the right decision.

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.

They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as...

I will not exorcise you - I'd miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

... it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

... finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why...

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.

The best things in life are not things, but they are our beautiful loving thoughts.

No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.

It took until the end of her life for me to cherish each day with my mother the way I naturally did with my brother. At the end, I loved my mother simply, without request to do better in any way, or...

It is not Love that is the crime and it is not Love that is the sin. It is the absence of it!

It is an interesting thing, love, It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.

You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human –...

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Dillan didn't just kiss. He slow danced. We moved in sync. I wanted to lose myself in him. In his touch. Right then the world seemed like such a perfect place.

This might not mean much to you right now, but for what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better than most. Life isn't black and white. People aren't either. Family, friends, lovers. It's all a...

Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer 'only if you're going to put out this time,' I told her...

My father usually agreed with her requests, because stamped in his two-footed stance and jaw was the word Provider, and he loved her the way a bird-watcher's heart leaps when he hears the call of the...

Oh love let me embrace your path, to be remembered in kindness so I may remain immortal

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.