I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

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 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?

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.