When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.