She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

To understand history, ' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.