"Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?"

“So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.”

“I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.”

“Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.”

“The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.”

“What thou seest, speak of with caution.”

“I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.”

“Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.”

Source : "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

“The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.”

Source : Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”