"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"

"Every life is a story worth telling, if only we take the time to listen."

Every time I write a book, every time I face that blank page, I’m convinced that I can’t do it.