Where a woman's faith in herself ends

Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD, ’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.

Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

It takes years to make an overnight success.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Skating has given me so much that it's priceless.