How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?" "Nothing" I said, "Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect".

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

I hear Mr. Palmer tell Hannah that it was an electrical fault. Five arsonists in one school and it ends up being something so technically boring.

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

The degree of leverage now being reversed is on a staggering scale, and the underlying global imbalances – notably between the savers and the spenders – will require long and painful adjustment.