So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

a normal human being ... does not exist.