Take too much time, and time will take you.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed.

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that.

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

Horses lend us the wings we lack.

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

As her father had so often said... Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.