The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.

Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.

Instead of blue skies and sunshine, there are grey clouds and endless rain that seeps into your bones, your soul.

Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.