I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them. — Helen Vendler
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is only in our decisions that we are important. — Jean-Paul Sartre
It is the emptiness of the bowl that creates the bowl — Nick Flynn
We get hurt worse by the people whom we care about. And they seldom mean to do it. That's what makes it so painful, kiddo. — James Lee Burke
In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else. — Penelope Keith