Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

The blazing fire burns!

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

I'm playin' the music I like.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

Getting to the heart of things, is never easy

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.