Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl. " Claire: "Except yours.
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.
Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.
I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out. . . An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good. '
As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.