Memory is the only friend of grief.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

I guess if you leave the milk of human kindness out in the sun too long, the sour cream of the crop will rise to the top.

As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

Pause and remember - You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb