What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

If you [want to] change something, come talk to me. It's the easiest solution.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.