A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

Peace comes at a price, often only at the end of a hard-fought battle.

A mind is not a barren field, but it is an ever-growing and ever blooming garden of love.

She hadn’t planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck.

Emma has it wrong. You don’t ditch your men, you kill them.”“I won’t kill you.” She stepped in front of me and took my hand, watching me take the last drag of my cigarette. “I like you too much.

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.