“Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death”
― The Art of Acting
― The Art of Acting
“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― The Help
― The Help
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the eternal embrace of a red oak. "Always, always," it sighed, "faithful beyond any man's deserving. I will keep the color of your eyes when no other in the world remembers your name. There is no immortality but a tree's love.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
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