If you have sons, then you become a teacher of men; but have daughters, and you become a student of life.

Water has a lousy memory. It's the riverbed that remembers everything.

Some strive to be poets, some are satisfied with being poems.

The moment of true clarity is not when you see the answer but when you recognize you don't need one.

The day you realize there is no rush.

You cannot escape your shadow. Be glad it can't speak.

I don't only live with my regrets, I feed and clothe them, and let them decide which movies we watch.

She will always be that meadow that knows my name.

To be a child again and believe that when night falls, clouds are stored away, like summer clothes in a cedar chest.

Kissing relieves the poverty of language.

There's always a sibling without a clue standing between you and your grief.

That neat trick she performs by walking out of a room without leaving.

She kept falling and falling and falling, and when she asked why I didn't catch her I said, I like watching you fly.

It has taken ten Mother's Days since I lost her to realize that in that urn was the only person who had ever sung me to sleep.

Night is the part of day that has made up its mind.

In her arms I am a child who wants to be read one more chapter.

A good kiss is like an incomplete sentence.

The moon was the first celebrity.

When we're all on the same page it gets a little crowded.

I could never be cruel to a duck. I would give a duck some of my pie.