“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.”
“The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.”
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
“Little me would’ve liked big me.”
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
“I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
