My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

Master morality is a "yea-saying" attitude where "good" and "bad" are equivalent to "noble" and "despicable" respectively.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I'm not a superhero now. I'm not some sort of celebrity that doesn't have feelings. I'm very, very normal.

You have to be resilient.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.