Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.