my world is different from all of you because, you all wanna rule your circle and i wanna rule all the circles

Be the Kind of Woman that when Your Feet Hit the Floor Each Morning, the Devil Says, ‘Oh Crap, She’s Up!

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

Faith means that you have peace even when you dont have all the answers.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence.