The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

Kate Atkinson

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Joanna Trollope

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Laura Miller

A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide.

Steve Maraboli

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Henry Fielding

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.

George Eliot

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Lorraine Hansberry

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor... so they sent a priest up to talk to me. He said.. On your mark...

Rodney Dangerfield

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

J. Courtney Sullivan

I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

Brooke Burke