A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

Jodi Picoult

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Wade Boggs

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Arthur Rubinstein

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Carter G. Woodson

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Neil Gaiman

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Stephen Gardiner

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Terri Windling

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius