Every paper girl needs at least one string.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.