“I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I?”

“If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.”

“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.”

“My head is full of seeing you see me.”

“If you encounter the Savior, He will save your soul.”

“A stitch in time saves nine......if the patient goes to the doctor early...”

“Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.”

“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....”