maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself

Names are powerful things.

Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.

However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.

But can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, What were they thinking? My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.