It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

It's the unknown that draws people.

When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

Throughout history, ideas need patrons.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.