You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.