if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.

I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly.

I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can't steal it back and I'm done spending every day trying to.

Love is a powerful magic.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Walter Payton is still the best back ever to play the game.

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.