Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."-Uncle Charles

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.

That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.

Never forget: Satan’s goal is to turn us away from God.