There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing.

That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.

—Leah Raeder in Unteachable

Strength is not in the body, it's in the mind. It doesn't lie in flexing your muscles and crushing those who oppose you. It lies in being the last one standing.

—Leah Raeder in Black Iris

We don't always get closure. Sometimes we have to make our own.

—Leah Raeder in Cam Girl

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

—Sitting Bull

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

—Erich Fromm

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

—Steven Wright