“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer...

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”

“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles,...

“Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused....

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the...

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

“This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in...

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."<br /> "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the...

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human...

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

“Why were you lurking under our window?"<br /> "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?"<br /> "Listening to...

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”