This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Potential has a shelf life.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

There is never only one, of anyone

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.

Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

We are not evolved but evolving.

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.