There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

There was something irresistible about popcorn.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence!

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.