Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

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.

To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it.

O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

There is always room for the man of force.

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.

Cricket was my reason for living.

You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.