Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.
The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.
It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.
I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.
If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So, yes, divorce is talked about a lot, but it's so much more fun to be able to spin it with dark humour, rather than talk about real people's divorces.
Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future. " - Yelena
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.