There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. 

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. - Romeo and Juliet 

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or...

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. - Ramona and the Pest 

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.