I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted, making sure that it is being actually invested.

In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

Friends are seldom found; they are made.

She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote.