Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.