Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.

Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

If she was going to die she wanted to go out with chocolate in one hand and a shopping bag in the other.

Life is about juggling obligations, Valerie. You need to study smarter, not harder.

Hope is victory in any hardship.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

Smile, look invested, and when you hand in certain projects, say you enjoyed working on them.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.