He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.

I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thingin heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?”The answer: the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet.

Once a sarriyal, always a sarriyal, she thought.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Love is a dangerous angel.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.

Success is not something you get out of what you do.