There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.