can’t get into the river with you,” I said, “but I’ll walk you right to the edge of it. I will be with you every step of the way.”

“I always knew I was a good person, but I couldn’t find myself in there. I was so sick, and I just couldn’t find myself underneath all the sickness.”

discovered that I could add her to any social gathering and she would not only roll with the vibe but would become the vivacious heart at the center of the event.

Make your house into a temple of emptiness, my tired darling, and peace will come live with you forever.

didn’t want to hurt anyone, I didn’t want to get hurt, I didn’t want to lose anything I already had, and I didn’t want to lose anybody.

Because secrecy is the greenhouse in which addiction blooms, flourishes, and metastasizes.

“The truth has legs,” she used to say. “It always stands. When everything else in the room has blown up or dissolved away, the only thing left standing will be the truth.

do know that I could no more arrest my growing feelings of love toward Rayya than I could stop the tides.

That’s one of the things, the main thing, you came here to do—to learn how to live your own life without obsessing about anyone else. That’s