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

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.

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.

... 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 love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

I love being alive. I like being a human being.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.