You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

I don't trust most people. Except for you.""Why me?""Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …

A hug is a priceless gift of love and kindness.

I would give my heart to the religious so that they may realize that god hates us all.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.

Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.