My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

What makes someone irresistible, is not their looks, but the way they can make your mind tickle, your heart race and your soul smile, all at once.

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.