When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.

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.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.

Control the things you can control .

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.