All objects exist in a moment of time.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes.

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

This early piece of the morning is mine.