Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.

The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie

dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.

I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.

The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.