All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people’s. Like they weren’t just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.

If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.