I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Tension is the Mirror of our Past.

Fed by plants, fed up with the world

So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

Putting the makeup on, not a problem. Taking the makeup off, every night.... it makes your face swell.

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.