As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

Take a look and pick up a book, you never know what you might just find.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!

When Eddie Gray plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.