I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use.

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.