Quotes About Reflection

Grief isn't like a map you can follow. It's not a simple route with a destination. Sometimes you loop back and find yourself in the exact same place you left.

It had been so long since I'd written, really written, that I'd forgotten what it felt like--how it changed things, shifted everything. I'd forgotten how writing surprises you--how you sit down feeling one thing and come out feeling another--and that I'd never heard my dad's voice in my head like this before, never known I could feel this close to him again, that this letter from him might ever exist. But here it was.

Edith's mother used to say, 'An immaculate home is a sign of a misspent life.

sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

Most spiritual paths ultimately lead people to the understanding of their own connection to the divine.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life

All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in life taught the opposite.

him. They raised their glasses, and Valentine said a few more

Mistakes are expected, respected, and investigated

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool." Marguerite de Valois

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.

Very early in my life it was too late.

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.