It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'<br /> <br /> 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.<br /> I love thee to the depth and breadth and height<br /> My soul can reach

Tonight’s December thirty-first,<br /> Something is about to burst.<br /> The clock is crouching, dark and small,<br /> Like a time bomb in the hall.<br...

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I...

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no...

“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.<br /> "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.<br /> She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the...

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast...

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”