But let me tell ya, spend every day living only for yourself, every day indulging in little sins that aren’t that big of a deal, and one day I may be showing you the ropes in hell. Amen.

A seal the size of Canada attaches to her soul light.

You’re beautiful. If you believe it, they’ll believe it.

We girls are prewired to like things that make you suffer.

I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.

Someone should have warned me about love's dark underbelly, about the rejection and despair.

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

It's a god-eat-god world.

His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.