I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes!

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.