People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

Yes, ever since antiquity, the day after Friday has been Saturday.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere.

How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.

You're such a book girl.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

You have to experience you own life just as death.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

The immediate facts are what we must relate to. Darkness and light, beginning and end.

We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child.