They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

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.

Because lies outpace the truth, sooner or later you will trip up on your own tongue.

Every second and minute that you are not sleeping should be converted, investing your life and your time into doing that thing that you were born to do.

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it's ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out.