That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from.

The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.

I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch," said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue.

There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

I didn't know how to be in the world without her.

There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

Into every life a little rain must fall.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.

For people who use Google Wallet, the experience works.

We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.

If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it.

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.

There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. But by no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

You're going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably better than most of the issues across browsers.

There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. By no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.

I think it is going to be hard for individual OEMs to create a platform on top of which people will write content and services and which users will transact.

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.

Nest is one vertical implementation of a set of smart products for the home. But we will support other people's smart products for the home.

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.

There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.

I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

We do have business relationships; we do licensing relationships, and people want to use Google services on top of Android. But in theory, you can use Android without Google.

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Android phones in China are more 'Android open source' rather than Android in the way we are all used to here. So a lot of phones don't have Google Play, etc.