Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

The truth hurt more than lies.

Your true destiny is desperately waiting on you to start thinking, acting, and walking with faith and courage.

Nothing in the world is like this-a bright white page withpale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencilthe soft hush of itmoving finallyone dayinto letters.

don't fly too close to the sun, " Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.