Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I'd only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn't say.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.