Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Listen to the time as it can heal everything.

How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?"..."It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank yo

One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.