My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody.

Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.

Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.

Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.

Do it double, because some can't do it at all.

Something contracts in my chest. The air shifts, grows heavy and dense as mud. Alexa twists her hair around her finger and whispers, "Didn't you even try to escape, Charlotte?

I say to my sister, "I thought you were doing the things in our Dream Book. I was sure of it." "Why would I do that stuff without you?" "Because you could.""Well, you were wrong.

Radite na tome da budete elokventni.Vecina njih zna samo da prica, mnogo vise nego sto treba.

What if God doesn’t keep his promises?

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

You can't judge anyone for what they've done, because people change.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace)

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it