Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

When I rule the world, " screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!

Get busy achieving all the things in life you want to achieve, because one day you'll be fine and the next ...

People tend to cherish and take care of the things they pay for and therefore own, countries included. The opposite is also true. When was the last time you changed the oil in a rental car?

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

I have no intention of telling people what I have for breakfast.

I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.