Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

a star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.