A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

When my husband of almost 20 years can't take his eyes off me? That's amazing.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.