You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Shadows can only exist where there is light.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a "realization, " "a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations" – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Eragon. Is that all you say? Yes.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.