Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked...'Because I love them so much.

But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us, " I said."We know us, " said Mother. "They're wrong. And don't ever allow them to convince you otherwise. Do you understand?

A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.We were about to become cigarettes.

I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.

So I am not exactly sure what I imagine and what I remember. Is there a difference? Not much, if you ask me.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

If you have an idea and I have an idea - then we EACH have JUST ONE idea...but if you share your idea with me and I do the same...we EACH have TWO ideas!

By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con