Words worth keeping

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.