To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The life in our possession is our time

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

Most Girls think that the every boy they don't like is not good but they didn't see the inner soul of them.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.

Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.

People have notions of what a wife's role should be in this process, and it's been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different - I think most real marriages are.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.