We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

When I was 4 years old ... I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.