But Mike was like a Bjork song-all happy and giddy and fun on the surface, but bubbling with turmoil and pain underneath.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.

Don't believe everything you hear

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

Every pretty girl is a heartbreaker

The best secrets are the most twisted

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.