When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

Home is everything you can walk to.

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.

This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.

So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was alone, a parade of one.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

Should auld acquaintances be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days o'auld lang syne?

If we put ourselves behind and put what's more important in front, we will know what to do.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.