I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.

Sarah Palin knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

expectation isn't the same as desire

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