This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it?

She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.