I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Life hath set No landmarks before us.

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.