I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I even love the smell of books.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Hope is full assurance of faith.

Creativity is encountering something unexpected

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.