Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful

If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.

Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” - Esme from Sister Mischief

I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. - Esme from Sister Mischief

This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould.

I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all.

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

God, living is enormous!