“Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.”

“Growth is not concerned with itself.”

“They never die who have the future in them.”

“These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”

“Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”

“They never die who have the future in them.”

“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”

“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before its too late.”

“We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?”

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

“True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”