With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Sometimes the fastest way down is to jump off a cliff.

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.

Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

When you love others you aren't nervous.

America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals