Fate changes when you change your clothes.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

I have always known a thing before it happens.