If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Don't you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

Some day they will know what I mean.

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

Archers are pretty focused.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.