Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks

Live what you love and what you love will fill your life.

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.