Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

He locked gazes with her. “I have to wonder why you aren’t being straight with me. I hate getting myself killed without knowing why.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"