You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

Ungentlemanliness?” he teased. “I dare you to say that five times fast.

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Those who fume at their problems become their victims.

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

I feel like there are very few times in your life when you know what you have when you have it.