With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

In your patience ye are strong.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.

To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.