Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than wh….

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months..

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been..

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And….

Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise….

I would have fallen in love with you anywhere..

I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble ….

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of bl….

Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict..

After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, a….

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar..

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle..

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it..

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait..

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life..

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table..

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was o….

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways..

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose he….

After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some ….

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people..