Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.
The tears had turned to ink.
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.
Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.