Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.

A person who has 'tidied up' has both the words and a tidy area to show for it. It is much harder to find a word that describes the giving-up-things mode of attention a mother is giving to her baby.

Love doesn't go away overnight. It sometimes stays for coffee.

Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

It was like the beginning of the end of the world.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

When it comes to beauty, I'm all about lashes right now.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.