Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

Callin my ex-girl or e-mailin my mama, you're the only one that's causin me this drama.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

He was through playing games. When it came to Soteria, he had no sense of humor whatsoever. Anyone who threatened her, ended their life. It was that simple.