Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

I love all Scarlett Avery's books. This one included. - Kathleen

Gracious words nourish the soul.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.