That's the best part. The how.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.

That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

Life is too short to be organized

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.