Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.