"You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing."

“It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love”

“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko (1986). “The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright”, Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press

“The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.”

“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”

“I'm really not good with impulse control.”

“Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.”

Source : Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”

“The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.”