- "you were given this life because you're strong enough to life it"
- "All good things are wild and free"
- "We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all need to learn to live in the same box"
- "Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
- "people will stare. make it worth their while"
- "We will never be as young as we are tonight"
- 'I lean forward, knowing this will be written, and I ask what she'd say if her story had an audience. She smiles. "Tell them to look up. Tell them to remember the stars, the stars are always there but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope"'
- " Tell her something true when all she's known are lies. Tell her God loves her. Tell her about forgiveness, the possibility of freedom, tell her she was made to dance in white dresses. All these things are true."
- Collins: Are we a thing? Angel: Darhling we're everything.
- "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was. We do not possess anything in this world, least of all other people. We only imagine that we do. Our friends, our lovers, our spouses, even our children are not ours; they belong only to themselves."
- "Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war." -Jonathan Safran Foer
jun 19 2008 ∞
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