“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.
There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams. Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass, and most importantly, they’ll turn you on.”
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
― If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
like home.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
“Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord...”
― The Coming and Going of Strangers
― The Coming and Going of Strangers
“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”
― Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
― Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
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