Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.