Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.