The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!
Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!
Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.
That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
I think that success is having fun.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.