She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

His memory is the last place i want to be. I would give anything to always be in his present.

The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.