Magic gives you a lot of choices, " Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Mutually assured destruction.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.

When an impressive level skill is accompanied with consistent action on the right plan, success becomes the only possible destination.

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.