Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.("The Undying Thing")

Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes, ” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

My friends and I love having girls' nights in. We're hardly ever all in the same city, but when we're finally able to hang out, we make the most of it.

I love my fans because they're smart, dude.