Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

May the Lord revive the crushed spirit.

We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart." Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.

I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my hea

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.