People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

Any obstacle is an opportunity to gain strength and think differently.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone.

O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.

Sounds good. Drive safe." He sighed, knowing I really meant, "Take care of my Mercedes.

Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.