Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

We live and breathe words.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.