you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.

Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted.

Seek the tarnish and you shall find

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.