If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.

Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.

My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

God is only where you let Him in.

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.