If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

To think freely--you and only you can liberate yourself from the conformity of your society.

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

Feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one