And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

Oh my God!” Sam said again, his voice shaking. I’ve given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.

Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.

Fat or thin. tall or short. we have a problem with almost everything, and maybe, that is why we should actually start "LIVING".

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.