If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Courage is strength of a strong soul.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

Sometimes I just stand on the beach and look at the water, and Cuba feels so close it's unbelievable.

I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.