What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Women are so enigmatical - some in everything - all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Opposable thumbs are overrated.

Don't be fooled, Clara. No one's new and shiny. Not really.

Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee