Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

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.

A calamity can horrify an individual who is obsessed about life destruction and that particular individual could not indulge the beauty of living for the rest of his or her natural life.

With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.

Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it's going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

Live the moment for the moment.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.