Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real. . . . Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.
I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.
Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself. " In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance. . . How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?