Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?