We're lucky." He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. "Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two.

What river can flood over the mountains of your love?

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

Have enough courage to love.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.