Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.