Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

Happiness is the best makeup to emphasize your inner beauty and outer glow.

Everything is research.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.