I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Tell me why...... I don't like Mondays.

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Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.