I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

We can transform our lives by renewal of our mind.

Woman you’re as mean as a copperhead. Come here let’s find out if you’re as cold-blooded.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.