If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

They’re not fat pigs

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.