And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

If I were a bird, I will have no feet.

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep.

There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive. I'm on alert, and I can be fresh.

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.