Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

His lips ever so gently touched mine, and suddenly I felt everything stirring inside me grow wings, let loose, and fly.

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity--an unstoppable force.

There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.

I'm the one who didn't want to go into Iraq.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

One can never outlive one's vanity.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.