I didn’t know what darkness was until I lost you

He Looked down at her gravely. "In many ways, we are the most perfect match. We see each other as we are, but neither of us views the other as broken.

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

I wonder, ” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...

I had a renewal of mind, when I begin to read.

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

It's over, her mind whispered. There's still hope, her heart insisted.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.