• Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

• Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.

• Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

• Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

• True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

• I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.

• I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

• If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

• A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

• Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.