“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

“Someone who eats pancakes and jam can’t be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.”

“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.”

“WINTER'S GHOST: Autumn moon incautious in the dark river Winter’s ghost walks with a covered face and silver bones wait in all animals to be bone cloth upon her shoulder wait for her happiness in that they are silver”

“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”

“I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”

“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”

“I want to hurt you. I want to own you. I want to devour you. I want to make you mine. I’m already yours.”