Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

We are all shaped by what we do.

Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

I am not throwing away my shot.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude