The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.

The problem with books is that they end.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.

we’re too old to be young.

... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You

In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.

I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.

and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.