Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

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.

I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn’t have to.

The best feeling in the world, is to be able to help someone else other than yourself.

Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.

Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

This above all: be true, be true, be true.