My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

As soon as she says this, I realize she is just like everyone else, and wish I was back at home so that all the things I do not understand could be the same as they always are.

The finest clothes anyone can wear are a kind heart and a loving soul.

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.

A guitar has moonlight in it.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.