My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

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.

I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger

Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.