He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

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.

Everyday we have a high calling that we need to fulfill and everyday we can do it whether it's just to smile at somebody we little know.

My motto is "more mystery, less history".

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

"Socialist" is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

And we're just all made of molecules and we're hurtling through space right now.

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.