We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.

True friends are always together in spirit.

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.