"Every Last One" Quotes

No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. And maybe that's what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you're least expecting it.

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not the thing with feathers. The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

One of the most difficult things about giving advice is that it's so difficult to take.

How many young women have been denied their sexuality because their mothers were afraid of it?

You can't lose people like that. If they're gone, it's because they don't know how to stop themselves.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

Sometimes you have to try to make your own happiness, even when you're drowning in the sadness of others.

But hope is a stubborn thing, even in the face of the worst odds. It lingers and waits for us to believe in it again.

We all think our memories are so accurate, but they change, too, just as we do.

It's hard to know how to protect your children. There are so many dangers in the world, and they all seem to be lurking in the most innocent places.