Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

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.

Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!

The Son of God, Jesus Christ, ransom His life to save us all.

We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

I've always played the guys that end up having the wisecracks.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.