Orphanage quotes

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.

In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that time, that place.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

I think my immediate reaction was, "I'm so tired. I need a little more time." But, it was very quickly followed up by excitement. It's very flattering, and it's a wonderful vote of confidence. We dream of getting to do what we do.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.