My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

What is most personal is most universal.

When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

Acceptance is the road to all change.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.