The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

So much in life came down to timing.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.