To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

You became moon dust in my soul, I couldn't quite brush you away because somehow you always returned to haunt my heart.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

Your situation may look impossible, but don't ever rule out the favor of God.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.