Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

Passion warms up the soup of love cold in the vessel of the soul

Worst People Are the best TEACHERS.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I'm not a fruity girl. I don't like licorice. I'm chocolate all the way.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.