You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

everything happens for a reason.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

Hill sprints are good for everyone!

When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.