Choosing between day and night. Edgar and Heathcliff.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turning point you will use to label and count your years with... Your own BC and AD.

Why was love such an addictive drug?Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.