If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

It's important to be grateful for the gifts we have

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.

As a rule, she didn’t like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

The answer is no, " said Melody firmly. “Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.

We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING.

I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.