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

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.

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.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.