Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.

We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I?

I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

I want to drag knives over my skin, just so that I can feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough to do that.

Life and light will not let me be.

That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Rogerson, " I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea, " he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.