It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.