I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.

Sometimes our whole life is all about, not letting the fire that burns our homes down become the light that guides us home.

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.