Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
You think it’s so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain’t.
I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
You never know ahead of time what something’s really going to be like.
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don’t have to be ashamed.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied
The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.
life ain’t supposed to be nothing, ‘cept maybe tough
When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn’t want to forget… So I realize, that if it’s hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.
It’s crazy isn’t it?” She shook her head. “You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don’t have to believe it, and I think it’s beautiful.” She shook her head again. “It’s crazy.
She wasn’t scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light
The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
You’re the proverbial diamond in the rough”, she’d said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
Hope … is not a feeling it is something you do.
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
If you’re a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you’re watching a lot. You’re trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.