I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

...the villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.

I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.