"It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance."

“Saying you love someone is a good thing.”

Source : Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.396, Penguin UK

“I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com

“I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.”

“Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.”

“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

Source : "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

“November’s a burn and an ache.”

“My first playpen was a cardboard box.”