It was as if, before she'd met him, her blood had circulated grayly around her body, and now ir was all oxygenated and red. She was petrified of becoming the half-alive person she'd been before.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Lawyers are natural politicians.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.

That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.