I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

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

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

I had a dream about you last night... I was a brick and you were a blanket. Damn that improbability drive.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.