Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.

Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

We make patterns, we share moments.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of her neck which would one day hang from the end of a rope

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.