The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Jacob glanced across at the woman. 'She'd have you for breakfast, mate.''Yeah, ' Luca countered, 'maybe I want to be had for breakfast.

All great adventures start with an idea.

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.