[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Jesus soon is coming, and Christmas too, Good reason for being happy, Helping people to do.

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.

I took a long period off to be a mom.

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.