The words were strung in the air like garland. She could almost see them.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

You do not get to choose who you love.

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there, " he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.