The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

You do not know what you have and how you are blessed until you have nothing..Count all your blessings.

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

I love singing for people who are loving what I am doing.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.