That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Nothing happens... but first a dream.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

If you want to do something then be the best.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

I've always wanted to see my name up in tights.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself