Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

Time's never up", she whispered, not looking at me, but at my canvas. "Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. Of course there is.

I didn't answer. Just shook my head and let the tears roll. "I just want it to go away. I just want all the drama to stop. Nobody would believe me anyway, " I whispered. "Nobody would care.

Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea

When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.

For everything about him fitting her fantasy image of what she wanted, she still didn’t feel seen by him…and that made her all the more aware that maybe her fantasy wasn’t what she wanted at all.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.