But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Goodness makes our world a better place because human beings are kinder to each other when we feel safe and secure.

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

I never heard so much content in so short a period.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.