Locked rooms and open doors

“... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.”

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“People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.”

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“I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.”

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“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

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“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

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“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

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“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”

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“It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.”

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“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”

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“Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.”

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“People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.”

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