People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Shirley Manson

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler

Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

B. R. Ambedkar

Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Bridget Hall

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Cecil Parkinson

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Alain de Botton

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Thomas Gray

Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

Mark Haddon

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

Alfred North Whitehead