Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

Wisdom's daughter walks alone—”“Ella!” Frank stood suddenly. “Maybe it's not the best time

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

I love all the things there are, and of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one; and that's why I go from life to life.