Quotes

Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.

Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly.

I understand now that even a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.

Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either.

This wanting, it feels good, like a bruise you need to press on, a reminder that there are things in life so valuable that you must risk the pain of losing them for the joy of briefly having them.

Somehow, it never occurred to me that this was an option: that two people, in the same hug, could both be allowed to fall apart.

Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too.

All these years spent thinking that I had superhuman self-control, and now I realize I just never put anything I wanted too badly in front of myself.

Because nothing—not the beautiful and not the terrible—lasts.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

You lead life; it doesn’t lead you.

For me, the only real power is the kind that comes from the core of who you are and reflects all you were meant to be.

When I think of authentic power, I think of the power that occurs when purpose aligns with personality to serve greater good.