You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Living a selfish life is a recipe for disaster

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

It could have been avoided. This couch misery spiral, this … loss … I could’ve avoided the bulk of it simply by doing more. I could’ve given a shit...

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.