I preferred to read than talk with the others.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

If I thought someone was just chatting me up because of being on TV, it'd kill me.

I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.