Ellen Sussman quotes:

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

And Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means "Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese."

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!