Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.