I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

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.

Some of the worst places I've ever lived in were fear, pain, and shame. The cost of living was so high, your only choice was a slow death.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.

You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.