The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

Scusi mia bella*, but it runs in the blood of all Italians to be skillful lovers. So you have to get used to this.

Never give up. May hope be your anchor.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

People are optimistic about the future.

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.