There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Just because you deny facts and science doesn't mean they aren't true

The struggle to live up to an “ideal image” of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

In fear we are acting on fiction and in love we are acting on truth

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?