"Normal? I'm not normal enough for you?" Carlos says.

When in doubt, sound confident-it confuses the guys who are about to wipe the floor with you.

• Jeg har alltid rett, visste du ikke det?
• Vel, jeg tror vi skal la det ligge, siden vi prøver å skape harmoni her inne i kveld, svarte hun tørt.

• Du er mitt hjem, svarte han hest. - Jeg er der du er, og Odin er ikke det mest dyrebare jeg har. Det er du. Han kommer på en god andreplass, la han til. - Men du troner øverst helt alene.

Fortid er fortid, vi har mer enn nok med å tenke på dagen i dag og i morgen, pleide moren å avspise henne med.

"Bare kall meg hva du vil, for det biter ikke på meg likevel," erklærte Ola med et hark.

Dyremodeller viser at selv om du fødes vaginalt og utvikler en rik tarmbakterieflora de første leveårene, vil antibiotikabehandling eller andre faktorer som svekker tarmbakteriefloraen i oppveksten, kunne øke sårbarheten for angst og uro samt svekke konsentrasjon og hukommelse.

If I want things to change, I can't just sit around wishing they would change. I have to make them change.

When you're in the middle of a situation, sometimes it's hard to see how things really are.

I believe in making the best of even the worst situation. I mean, you have to, don't you? There's no point being negative about things you can't change, you only make them worse.

I could handle it - after all, rejection is part of the creative process; as painful as it is necessary for true growth and greatness ...

News reporter: Do you feel worried? Do you fear for your safty?
Me: You know, I'm glad you asked me that. Maybe I should be scared right now, but I honestly think the people writing these letters need to be pitted more than feard. It's been my experience that people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.

Was he going to kiss her?
Oh god, did she have goulash breath?
Never mind. He had it, too.
Did she want him to kiss her?

"You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? Wich have you had more of?"

But the hardest thing is something I didn't expect - seeing people I used to know, people I grew up with, and knowing that while I sat in my house, they got older and went to school and made friends and had lives. It's like I'm the only one who stopped

You know how it's easy to believe everything is about you, especially when something goes wrong? Why me? Why do I have the worst luck ever? Why is the universe so mean? Why does everyone hate me? My mom used to say sometimes it's actually about the other person and you just happen to be there. Like sometimes the other person needs to learn a lesson or go through an experience, good or bad, and you're just an accessory in some way, like a supporting actor in whatever their scene happens to be.

The only difficult thing was that she knew there was only one Sam and he was not hers. She'd always thought she could live without a man, easily. This man, though, she was not so sure she could live without.

Prisen vi betaler for å leve lenger, er dårligere livskvalitet de siste leveårene.

"Everything´s uglier close up," she said.
"Not you," I answered before thinking better of it.

"I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose."