Then she smiles, like it'sthe first time she's seen sunafter a decade of winters.

One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.

I'm all alone, fuming at myself, waving a great flagof failure.

Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook, filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

The true test is wonwhen being togetherwithout saying a wordis everything.

There're three reasonspeople get away from here:gone good, gone bad orgone dead.

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.

Growing up changes morethan playground gamesand body shapes.

I want out of this place.With no reminders."It stings -sulphur tearsin cinnamon rain.

Instead, she's as stillas a leaf-littered pond, dark water evaporating, waiting desperately for rain.

i miss my brother likethe sea would miss saltif that were taken away.

The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy's head.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

Never underestimate the power of the spiritual world.

Not knowing is half the fun, " Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.