I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic.

I'll marry that girl one day, you mark my words, " Toby said.

When words leave off, music begins.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.

She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.