...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

I tell, therefore you are.

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

expectation isn't the same as desire

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.