There Is Hope, But Not For Us.- Franz Kafka

“There is hope, but not for us.” - Franz Kafka

“You know, she was four years old the first time she beat me at hide and seek. Four. I was looking for her for hours. When I finally found her she just smiled. You know, that Effy smile that means ‘you don’t know me at all, and you never will’. See that’s a kind of magic. She’s so good at concealing things… hiding, avoiding. But I do know her. And I know that she has got so much love in her heart. But the thought of letting it out, showing her cards, scares her to death.”

— Anthea Stonem, Skins

“I had actually read that book years before and when the script came around I found the book in my library and I realised I had underlined everything Lisa. I knew her. I felt that she was honest, I felt that she was honest in a world where a lot of things were not. That she could push everybody else’s buttons and nobody could push hers. And I did see that as a very sad thing. She wanted so desperately for somebody to call her out, to talk to her honestly, to be direct with her, to have a real connection in life.”

— Angelina Jolie on Lisa Rowe from Girl, Interrupted (1999)

“…I am half afraid to hope for what I long for.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. A.P Strong, August 1851