. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.

If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Do not let anything get in your way of chasing your dreams.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

You can see all kinds of matchups within those teams, but I think it's going to come down to who plays best as a team and is patient.

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

If you don't like my book, write your own.

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted plans.