Only the dead remember the truth.

History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.

The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living.

No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

I love everything about the South; I even love hate.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.