“The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.”

“I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.”

“A lifetime of hurt in one act of vengeance.”

“Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.”

“Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.”

“It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.”

“There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts)”