My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

We, unaccustomed to courageexiles from delightlive coiled in shells of lonelinessuntil love leaves its high holy templeand comes into our sightto liberate us into life.Love arrivesand in its train come ecstasiesold memories of pleasureancient histories...

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

The RiderA boy told meif he roller-skated fast enoughhis loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion.What I wonder tonightpedaling hard down King William Streetis if...

A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in our lives

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn’t want to force anybody to want to.

Sometimes we have toxic relationships with certain people. We know who they are, We know how they operate, and we still haven’t cut them off. It’s difficult for us to let people go, even if...

In the flush of love’s lightwe dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.Yet it is only lovewhich sets us free.