Melanie Quotes

I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.

Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Can I keep you, Avery Connor? Will you be mine?

You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. “Is it so terrible to believe in something?

If you truly live, you will never truly die!

Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.

When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed

Her whole world was in the depth of his eyes.

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.

Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt he’d found a friend, and that was worth being crazy for.

To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

People do change, sometimes we just choose not to notice it.

You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.

Everything changes your life.

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

I knew a girl and she felt like art.Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and white, But she was always a piece of exquisite art.

The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

Only the most passionate love could ever induce me to marry.

But in her heart she truly believed she was a better lady than Lady Dorothea ever was. Was it wrong to think she was nobler in her heart than the true nobleman's daughter?

It felt like betrayal, finding joy even in little things when Willow was in danger.

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.

Some quotes aren't worth typing.

Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.

Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?p 181

Belief is where Magic, whether light or dark, is based on. Without belief, there is no Magic.

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

Life is a brief shot at something incredible

What I’m trying to say is, there’s no perfect life without you. In fact, I no longer dream about a “perfect” life. I only dream about a life with you.

He doesn’t hurt us anymore.”Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore.

Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying... I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though I breathed and moved, I was not alive.

When God became lonelyhe created man, or was itwhen man became lonelyhe created God.

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.