Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind$$$ Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."

He loved her$$$ as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

For children love is a feeling; for adults$$$ it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself$$$ and at times like that$$$ the right words can change the world.

Ethan Wyeth: "I hope you're thirsty."<br>Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"<br>Ethan: "'Cause your dumb and ugly$$$ but I can do something about thirsty."

If some wizard would like to give me a present$$$ let him give me a bottle filled with the voices of that kitchen$$$ the ha ha ha and the fire whispering$$$ a bottle brimming with its buttery sugary smells . . .

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Shoot$$$ boy$$$ the country's just fulla folks what knows everything$$$ and don't understand nothing$$$ just fullofem.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.