I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

Justice without compassion is but tyranny

In times of sorrow, be still.

What we can do for another is the test of powers what we can suffer is the test of love.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.