One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person, ” she said nastily, “Can make your life around here a living nightmare and I definitely don’t think that you want that.

Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust.

I'll keep this necklace forever, " said Samara, "as long as Jade and I can keep you forever too.

I don't know anybody who is raising their hand saying, "Oh God, I love being vulnerable and needy."

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

When in doubt, use brute force.

...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.