Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

I wish you allan ego freedriven day!

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

I'm a chick for sure.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.