A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.

...loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.

During her lifetime Eleanor of Aquitaine had not been a patient woman. While she had lived, she had learned to bide her time, but biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

Tell how it is normal to be very comfortable on the outside but very uncomfortable on the inside. Tell how funny it all is. But tell a little something else, too. What can it hurt? Tell a little something else--about how you can be a nonconformist and about how you can be an outsider. And tell how you are entitled to a little privacy. But for goodness' sake, say all that very softly.

When the sun came through the [stained-glass] windows, I felt that I was standing inside of God's kaleidoscope.