[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws

I've always had an itch for acting and a passion for acting, but never really got to dabble into it too much, and now I can say I'm officially an acrtress.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

After you free yourself from the incredible expectations of love through the media from the time you were so high, you realise that it's the spaces between the notes that make music.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

As soon as you stop thinking about them, they'll send you a text message or call you. Because they know you stopped thinking about them. It's like a radar.