I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

There's just one thing I want you to remember. You know those chemicals women have in them, when they've got PMS? Well, men have the very same chemicals in them all the time.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

Revolutions are not made they come.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market.

HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.