He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

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.

You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.

We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he'll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.

Therefore, in the Beginning, which is Truth, all things are Eternal Truth itself

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.