“Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful.Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.”

“Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.”

“Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.”

“We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.”

“Even prisoners can escape if they have books.”

“When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”

“Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.”

“As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said "He had divorced Pompeia because the ...”

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”