Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.

But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this?

It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone.

She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just be alive beside each other.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.