I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Time wounds all heals.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Do you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest.

But how do you wait for heavenAnd who has that much timeAnd how do you keep your feet on the groundWhen you know, that you were born, you were born to fly

People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.

I did not go through the Book. The Book went through me.

Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.