It reveals how well you value someone -- the way you handle their belongings.

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

When in doubt, stay silent. People can't tell if you're plotting a nuclear war or just bored.

When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, If only time were transferable.

What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

If you don't like it, say something.

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

We hardly ever talk about trauma afterwards, because it helps to live in a world where we can pretend it never happened.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

In the fancy spectacle of life, aspire to find a joy that does not need an audience.

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

You're only naive once. Use it well.