There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Spirituality gives strength of spirit.

You cannot till this year’s land using last year’s sun.

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Slasher movies are fun. You watch yourself get chopped to pieces, yet you're still alive. You see the blood on the ax and think, Holy **it, this is sick, but you kind of get over your fear of death.