You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine, " said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.

Being less discriminative shouldn't mean protecting nasty people, then discriminating against the innocent

I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.

Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!