As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of pet they’re going to get … It’s an argument for its own sake.

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.