I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.