I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career. -- Nancy Farmer

Some suggestions for you :

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Law is mind without reason.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

A snake lurks in the grass.

A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

The only remedy for love is to love more.

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God.