The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

What's life without a little risk?

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

We dreamed together of the world remade.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.