I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

You are what you believe you are.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.