I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

There was something more than a little satisfying about ripping the heart out of someone the moment before they expected to do the same to you.

Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no, " she said. "I can't even stay married.

A walk in nature is connection with the Creator.

Looking for positives is always wise in any situation that you may encounter.

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

I am a living witness, that if you are brave enough to dream it, it CAN happen

Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.