I'm looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy..

I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81

You can ache for where you come from, and it's homesickness. A relationship, and it's heartbreak. But is there a word for missing your friends like that?

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

I know this feeling of being a ghost in your own life - no one sees you, no one feels you, so you stay still as if you could actually disappear at any moment.

So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.