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

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.

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.

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

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

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage of my life.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.