But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Everything is within the limit of possibility by the grace of God.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.