The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong, And that was there the whole time all along.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

In America, our jobs are being taken away from us. Companies, as we speak, are signing documents with Mexico and other places to move.

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.

In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

I, too, saw God through mud