If he does it with you, he'll do it to you.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

Life and light will not let me be.

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

So who do I want to be tomorrow?

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.