All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.