But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart

Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.

If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.

Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for the love of a good man. It humbled me.

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.” Claire