Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.
The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.
But I had never caused my parents a minute's worry. Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was worth something?
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.
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
It seemed to Gilly that everything in this world that you can’t stand to wait one extra minute for is always late.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied
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.
Could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.
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.
My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world?...
I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that b...
Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
Win was flabbergasted when he heard me say to the dog: We don’t put our paws on the table while folks are eating, Manch.
Whoever heard of a king who was scared of tall trees and a little bit of water?
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...
Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask What is truth? and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.
It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.