“If today is your past come tomorrow, then make your past your future of today.”

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.”

“The only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn’t deserve it.”

“If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.”

“It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, … what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”

“Your mother won a special reward,” she told me, “because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.”

“I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

“Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?””In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.”

“I’d heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. “We can’t heal you at Evergreen”, the very somber voiceover said. “But we can help you to heal yourself.” It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. “Hey Cass, “I’d say, “hand me that toothpaste.” “Caitlin,” she’d say, her voice dark and serious. “I can’t hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!”

“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn’t drama.”

“How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.”

“Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we’ve been blessed with.”

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”