you are right where you should be / now act like it

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.

I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

The shortest route to deeper and richer worship is a clearer theology.