People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. —Elana

What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?" —Georyn

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father

Power is the crown that eats the head, ”...

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

To lose someone after you’ve loved them was tougher than losing them when you’ve never even met them.

Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.