I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

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.

No guts, no story.

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

I've always had this feeling, " Henry says, "that all dogs are really therapy dogs.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.

I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.

Every last word is contagious.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.