No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

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.

Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.

For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word"- Catherine Drinker Bowen

Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Every day I get more and more honest.

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.