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“Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.”
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“Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.”
Source : Douglas Florian (2002). “Insectlopedia”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.”
Source : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.
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“If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.”
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“Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.”
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“Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”
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“Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.”
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“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”