Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.

He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.

So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.