Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

There is nothing that can satisfy a tasty soul accept the living water.

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

It’s not the people you fire who make your life miserable. It’s the people you don’t.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

Without regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water.

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.