The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.

when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?