Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

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Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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Ingenuity requires creativity.

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