The old Lena is dead.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

The problem with heroes and villains is that it’s not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees.

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.