I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good…

George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

— Ed Rendell

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself.…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

“We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.”

— Carolee Dean

“We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.”

— Carolee Dean

“How do you know where a story begins?”

— Carolee Dean

“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”

— Carolee Dean

“As soon as I left one town, I was in another, each one a totally different world, as if an invisible box surrounded its…

— Carolee Dean

“So quit asking everybody else questions, unless you’re ready to answer some questions yourself.”

— Carolee Dean

“Where we goin’?” Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses. For all I…

— Carolee Dean

“But thinkin’ you owe people is dangerous business.”

— Carolee Dean

“It brings back a long-forgotten memory of Christmas, the year I turned six. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was up…

— Carolee Dean

“Are you a virgin?” I asked, “A virgin who’s gonna tear out my heart?” “Yes … no … wait.” She looked at me. “I’m…

— Carolee Dean

“I used to think that words and music could change the world, but look at the people who have made it. You see their…

— Carolee Dean

“Is she worth all that pain?” he asked me, smiling. “Definitely,” I said, still reeling from the events of the day. “But I don’t…

— Carolee Dean

“What happened?” “I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn’t work out.” “The world ain’t set up that way.…

— Carolee Dean