Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Reading is not optional.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

The beast is the monster that destroys your dream

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

How deep is your game?

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.

My job is to make sure the law works for you as well as against you, and to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury.

Each of us is born with a history already in place

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.

Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe" - Gray

Pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated if you pee enough ha-ha into it. But pain is pure

Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.

Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account".

People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and I don’t Want to be there. Go love. Do your thinking.

She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. --perhaps the best line from Shooter

I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.

We dreamed a lot of good stuff. Marriage and forever and ever and that kind of thing. It meant everything to me. Not just a lot. Everything.

You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. —Jocelyn Lawson