I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

I don't trust most people. Except for you.""Why me?""Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

We will never know true bliss while our lifestyles are reliant on the misery and suffering of others.

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

I know that and I feel that.