"My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel."

"You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies."

"The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be."

"Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going."

"Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure."

"Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears."

"Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back."

"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."

"Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think."

"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."

"Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws."

"When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always."

"The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep."

"My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances"

"It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction."

"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."

"Books may well be the only true magic."

"Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight."

"All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face."

"Order is the key to all problems."

"I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me."

"Haste is a poor counselor"

"How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?"

"There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it."