Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir

Music is an invitation to feel but the quiet is an invitation to think.

And when I need to work anything out, I turn to the blank page. There, no one can steal my pain or try to poison my knowing, and there I always have the final word in my own story.

I open the windows so the birds’ songs can remind me that what is about to happen was made by God and blessed by God and that any shame added to it is a lie.

I have decided that I’m ready to stop destroying myself and start creating. I have already accepted my invitation and no one will convince me again that I’m not worthy. Not ever again. I have been invited and I have said Yes.

His whole life has been a retreat into his body. My whole life has been a retreat into my mind. Is this why it is so hard for us to love each other? Because he understands love to be the joining of two bodies, and I believe love to be the joining of two minds? Neither of us is bringing our whole self to the other. Maybe we are exiled from each othe

The bravest people I know are those who’ve walked through the fire and come out on the other side.

places where it’s safe to be fully human and fully known.

She also understood that it was no compliment. Any woman who doesn’t give a fuck is simply abandoning her soul to adhere to the rules.

Why can’t I appreciate anything I’m given?