That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are

The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

Those who engage in deception generally have nothing good to offer

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

Easter's nearly here, now - Sing, world, sing!

We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.