"Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times."

"Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot."

"She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse."

"...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not."

"I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived."

"Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote."

"The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day."

"I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect."

"You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be."

"This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter."

"What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong."

"Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones."

"She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all."

"Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories."

"It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now."

"Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene."

"But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself."

"You have a lot of optimism when you are young."

"I'd rather live my life off screen and give only a certain amount of energy to the work."

"On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day."

"My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school."

"Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic."

"Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them."

"Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them."