The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.