Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

There's not a woman in the world who won't buy a Lie she wants to Believe

Through many tribulations, we begin to search for the truth.

Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.

Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain.

I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.

[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.