A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy.

If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make your mental adjustment in the now, and the reality will follow.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.