This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

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.

It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it

When you try to cast doubt on the relationship of two true lovers.You'll find a bond that you'll never discover

'Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.

I'm not a fan of routine.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.