Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.

Everyone fights an American war.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Family! So sorry, forgive me. I thought I'd met all the mispocheh!

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.