What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

Dear Meg, " I said. "I can't be sure about Lityerses. But I think we must try. We only fail when we stop trying.

There are problems and conditions of this world that man nor woman can solve

Nine women possess the same rights as a man... to learning and knowledge.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

The idea of not being content with any level of success, doesn't by any means call for the absence of gratitude for your daily blessings.

That's why I work every day. Ev-er-y day. I want to knock people out.

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it.