Libraries are the pride of the city.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened

A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.-Connor Kenway

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

The world is not something to understand. Instead, you just adapt to it.

As long as you can laugh at you, it won't bother you when others laugh at you.