Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?

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.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with Cosmic Ordering.

I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.