I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines.

We forgive so long as we love.

My husband yells comments like "How long till you're ready? Throw out a date."

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Fear knows no borders, and the terminology of hate has seeped into every aspect of life.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.