She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.

the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.

Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.

There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.

Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.