My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

...I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them...

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Make mankind your dwelling place.

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

Everything constantly changes.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.