All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

Love what you are doing because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

When I meditate, I feel I am vast, very vast.