“For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.”

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

“What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star?--Julia Flyte”

“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Graduations are full of joy and celebration, but they are also full of broken hearts. It is one of those days when you miss the people you love so much it hurts, when imperfect families and dashed dreams weigh so heavily that you begin to think that everyone else is sitting on top of the world but you.”

“When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.”