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

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.

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?

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.

There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.

I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.