When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

Yes, ever since antiquity, the day after Friday has been Saturday.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere.

How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.

You're such a book girl.

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

The Holy Spirit searches all things, the depth of Truth of God.

A clean pond is more useful than a dirty ocean.

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.

Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.