It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

No one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men.

Life is simple and beautiful.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.