Pick something else".For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

The first person to fire out of your life when you take your power back, is the one you abused the most, and he or she did not stand up for him/herself.

To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.