“The idea of a future without her wasn’t to be borne. She had by some mysterious metamorphosis become more beautiful than anyone else he had ever encountered.”

He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn’t the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last.

One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see.

No pretentions to beauty or even good looks, was something he had not expected. But falling in love, he had always understood, was unpredictable, and, as far as he was concerned, irrevocable.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket

I’m always the person who’s taking everyone else’s kid and putting them on my hip, so I’ve kinda always been a mama.

There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.