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“One of the big problems with being a human is that you spend the whole time you’re here inside of one body, looking at the world through one set of eyes…”

“When you love someone, part of their pain becomes yours, I guess.”

“I hated the word diary. It sounded like kids’ stuff.”

“I remember the discordance of knowing that drunk driving was bad while knowing that my mom was good.”

“I tend to find good movies better than the books they’re adapted from, precisely because the movie has no room for air and every scene has to accomplish multiple goals.”

“A good life fits in your car. A great life fits on your motorcycle.”

“I think what I like about art museums is the same thing I like about acting: Acting is a chance to visit rooms in my mind that I have no other way of discovering.”

“I had the feeling that ten thousand years could pass and he’d never initiate a kiss — but I didn’t want to ruin the feeling of his elbow against mine, our knees millimeters from touching.”

“Flirting is just teasing with eye contact.”

“You look like a disgruntled Ann Taylor employee” is an excellent diss.

“A novel not to be praised for its sentences” is such a sick burn

“Supposedly, I loved acting. But I was six. No six-year-old dreams of labor.”

“Fame makes you big but it also makes you two-dimensional.”

“Sleep is time travel.”

“Perhaps it comforts us that there are stories, even if we don’t believe them.”

“It’s hard for be to believe that rental cars have value.”

“Look up, the roof of the world is open. Let us count stars and live in their luminous gaze.”

“That is what greasers do. They lean and loiter.”

“I will go from a girl who looks like she needs charity to a girl who looks like she’s received charity.”

“Burn the clothes and reform the character….”

“In the past, they would have burned the witches and reformed the clothes.”

"While there are many things beyond our control, I've always thought the cruelest is that we mortals are not told when our last glance is just that."

“Even people with *views* have money.” 😆

“No one should have to discuss existentialism before 7am.”

“I simply wish to keep myself in London and buy books.”

Same girl, same.

“Your allowance wouldn’t cover you with a fig leaf.” 😆

Less than 20 pages in and we get a treatise on Jimmy Stewart during WWII *and* some Star Wars lore? Be still my heart.

“‘Cringe’ is what people who can’t feel things call feelings.”

“The less serious your job, the more seriously you must take it.”

“The dead are not in the past, not really, because you carry them around with you.”

“Everyone knows that those who live in garrets must find at least a portion of their sustenance from tea and baked goods.”