It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it.

Mickey holds up the soggy paper. DIE. Don't you die.

Evan always used to day that it wasn't that you couldn't see that you should be afraid of, but what was right in front of you, in plain sight.

...I'm in a little bubble of warmth, just like I had with Ellis, a place I never thought I'd be again.

People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.

I think Temple is wrong. I don't think I'd dig that kind of art party at all.

...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.

People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa

Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.Girl slips on headphones. World gone.

I'm always losing things.

Everyone here seems to know exactly what they need, but I leave without a thing.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

[In art], less is more.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

The South is the region that history has happened to.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.