If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Best way to achieve greatness is to serve others with great love.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.