I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

I don't trust most people. Except for you.""Why me?""Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

I've got my doubts, there's no doubt about it

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.