“Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.”

Making Love out of Nothing at All (1983)

Misery (1987)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Angela bidding Eragon goodbye before he leaves for Ellesméra
Eldest (2005)

Newsnight Interview (February 24, 2011)

To a Lock of Hair http://www.bartleby.com/106/105.html.

Just Say No (1986)
Context: As a mother, I've always thought of September as a special month, a time when we bundled our children off to school, to the warmth of an environment in which they could fulfill the promise and hope in those restless minds. But so much has happened over these last years, so much to shake the foundations of all that we know and all that we believe in. Today there's a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country, and no one is safe from it — not you, not me, and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it. Many of you may be thinking: "Well, drugs don't concern me." But it does concern you. It concerns us all because of the way it tears at our lives and because it's aimed at destroying the brightness and life of the sons and daughters of the United States.

On religion.
What It Is (2009)