That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

I would do anything to stay beside you forever.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.

It´s hard to have you with me but not to be able to take your hand or kiss you -James

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars

But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

I do prenatal yoga and walk a lot.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.