I want people to hear my story, they're gonna feel my pain.

I don't listen to what people say, people been talking about me since I was born.

You know everybody has something to say. I'll be worried when they say nothing.

I've lost things bigger than my music career.

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year, ' I admitted, choking back tears.Coach Woj looked at me for a moment, his eye gentle.'You don't have to.

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

All my movies are achingly personal.