People like us will never really understand, Evanelle said. We fell in love with the men we were supposed to be with right off the bat. But women with broken hearts, they change.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.

Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.

Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for the people I had met and the people I had lost.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

All them weird chords which don't mean a thing...you got no melody to remember, and no beat to dance to

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.