Garth Nix Quotes

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

For people who have been following me for a long time, I really hope that they can get to know me a little better, maybe get to know the softer, squishy, emotional side of me, because I usually put up a weird side, so it'll be cool to be able to open up in that way to them.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

I have no doubt who I am.

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.