He hadn't told me everything, but I'd left him for dead. I guess we were just about even...

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.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

A publisher is somebody looking for someone who has something to say.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

Man is more than constitutions.

God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

Drama if I sing, drama if I dont sing. What do you do?

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other