The light is heart-breaking.

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.

Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

We make patterns, we share moments.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints.

52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.