Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.

If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

There's more to Life than this

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.