"I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back."

“A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.”

“Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.”

“What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.”

“Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.”

“When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.”

Source : "Interview: Melissa Rosenberg On New Moon, Eclipse, And Breaking Dawn's Potential Mpaa Rating". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2010.

“You have to have short-term memory. You have to be able to move on to the next practice, the next game, turn the page and keep your emotions so you make the decisions that are best for your group.”

“You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Mammoth Hunters (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Three”, p.264, Bantam

“At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him”