If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.