I wanted blood to signify life, not death.

I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Speed of life is a killer not a healer, so slow down to bloom like a flower.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

I'm not the type that would ask for a number or ask him on a date, but I have approached a guy. I probably would tell a joke or say, "You're really cute."

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.