And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There’s peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave.

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know.

They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy.

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference for the subtle differences that challenge and delight there is space for disappointment- and surprise.

I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.