Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.

People need to be happy, and if a song makes them happy, that's cool.

You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

I understood from an early age what being competitive means.