You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

By faith you can work miracles and perform heroic deeds

Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.