She didn't use any artificial light, but let the glow from the silver moon in the north and the periwinkle moon in the south to guide her.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

You are never too old to have an active imagination.

We have overcome heartaches by being kind to others and by supporting each other.

I think magic is hard for most people to believe in, because our lives are typically without it. Sometimes the supernatural is disguised behind other things like bravery.

... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.

In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.

Dad told me that before I was born, he would put my mom's stomach up to the speaker and play Led Zeppelin.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]