Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

When you start to pursue your dream with a strong faith, the length of its journey and the size of your obstacle ahead would become completely irrelevant.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

If you don't have a deal, you wind up losing money.

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.