Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

People are more than just the way they look.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Believing takes practice.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

i was the never the girl who thought i need to make sure i look like all the other girl. i think you look best when you stand out