Charlotte, Will’s beingvexing.''And the sun has come up in the east, 'said Jem, to no one in particular.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon

Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.