And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.