Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]

She hoped Alistair would prove to be more than she imagined. But, unfortunately, she knew without a shadow of a doubt that people weren’t what they once were.

Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.

Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit.

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.