His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

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.

I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

All Lightwoods look the same to me—

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.