The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn’t look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.

Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado. A tornado he had no business chasing.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

Sports are a metaphor for life.