"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion."

"Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart."

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."

"Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself."

"I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to."

"Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is."

"Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it."

"I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time."

"Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate."

"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."

"My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant."

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion."

"Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again."

"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."

"Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."