... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like the moon.

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.