“To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.”

“In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's...”

“You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much.”

“There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.”

“You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.”

“Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.”

“There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.”

“We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.”

“We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”