I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

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.

There is no great companion like a book.

At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.