...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

I'm not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together.

All women desire one simple quality in their partner, which is understanding.

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that's what you're feeling?

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

We can love ourselves by loving the earth.