“being in love can be frightening,and sometimes its easier to fight it than it is to face it.”

“No sense in being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.”

“A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God.”

“When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.”

“The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And Republilicans.”

“Sometimes, in the dark of night, when no one else could hear him but me, he'd cry out, like he was fighting some silent little war in his head.”

“There were worse things than being young and foolish.”