I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

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.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean you want a secretary or something?""No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

Truly there is a Living God, and He is the hearer and answerer of prayer.

Aim for the moon, but on your way don't forget to dance with the stars and shine as bright as the sun.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.