“I am suddenly overwhelmed with regret, it’s a new feeling for me, and I don’t find it at all pleasurable.”

I was worried sick, dear! ‘Where’s David? Or his bags?

I’m trying very hard not to connect with people right now.

I have lost all my skills, and now I know how it feels to be utterly helpless like you and your sister.

You must prepare for life, and whatever it will throw at you.

You are the life you accept for yourself.

One day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, ‘Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!

I’ve been burned so many times I’m like the human equivalent of the inside of a roasted marshmallow.

I want you to know, John, that you are the most important thing in this world to me.

I was perfectly fine not trusting people, not trusting people is what I’m used to

Social media is an amusement park for clinical narcissists.

Did I used to have a drinking problem?

Never let the bastards get you down!

Are we terrible parents?

If airplane safety videos have taught me anything, it’s that a mother puts her own mask on first.

One must champion oneself and say, I am ready for this!

If that’s not a cause for alcohol, I don’t know what is!

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

It must be awful to feel you’re not needed.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

I could never pretend something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.