When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.

There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.