Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

You cannot describe the beauty of nature in words, you cannot capture the feeling of God in camera. Its about the moment you set yourself free and live it.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.