He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

God made saints out of far worse people than you.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.