I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I don't believe in guardian angels, " Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.

Why do you chase the wind?

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

I didn't realize how much me hiding my sexuality also meant that I hid a lot of just my identity as a person.

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?