Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

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.

Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

I know you by your willingness.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.