It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Not if I know myself at all.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.