You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...

The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

You'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

Fight for what you want out of this one life.

I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Building walls does not make any country great again.

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.